Junket /(?)/

1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

   How Faery Mab the junkets eat.

   Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets.

2. A feast; an entertainment.

   A new jaunt or junket every night.

3. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country.

1. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

   Job's children junketed and feasted together often.

imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing

1. To give entertainment to; to feast.

   The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors.