junket
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Is junket a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A basket.obsolete
2. (obsolete) A delicacy.Examples: "[…] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast."; "Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […]."obsolete
3. (film) Ellipsis of press junket.Examples: "An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets."; "Every time anything of note happens – any time there is a junket or a new actor is cast – the issue will be front and centre."abbreviationalt-ofellipsis
4. (gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, dated) To attend a junket; to feast.Examples: "Be careful that you wast not, or spoil your Ladies, or Mistresses goods, neither sit you up junketing a nights, after your Master and Mistress be abed."; "1688, Robert South, Sermon preached on 8 April, 1688, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. The Second Volume, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 414, Iob’s Children junketted and feasted together often, but the Reckoning cost them dear at last."; "’Tis better than lying abed half the day, and junketing and card-playing all the night, and makeing yourselves wholly useless to every good purpose in your own families, as is now the fashion among ye […]"Synonyms: banquetdatedintransitive
2. (intransitive) To go on a junket; to travel.Examples: "Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard."; "It is only by much junketing about that one comes to the full realization of what men and women in the main are doing in this country. One learns as he passes from town to town, through cities and across plains, that the general reason for industry everywhere is to get the means to build and support a home."; "It was her belief that the summer folk went junketing off with the first fall of autumn leaves, leaving their cats to starve."Synonyms: gallivant, jauntintransitive
3. (transitive) To regale or entertain with a feast.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary