Junket
Junket , noun
[Formerly also juncate, from Italian giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, from Latin juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and compare Juncate.]
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.
Junket , intransitive verb
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.
Junket , transitive verb
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.