English-Thai Dictionary

junket

N การท่องเที่ยว ของ คนใน รัฐบาล ที่ ใช้ เงิน ส่วนรวม (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ  kan-tong-tiao-kong-kon-nai-rad-ta-ban-ti-chai-ngen-suan-ruam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JUNKET

n.[See Juncate. ] A sweetmeat. 1. A stolen entertainment.

 

JUNKET

v.i.To feast in secret; to make an entertainment by stealth. 1. To feast.
Job's children junketed and feasted together often.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

JUNKET

Jun "ket, n. Etym: [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate. ]

 

1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. Chapman.

 

2. A feast; an entertainment. A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray.

 

JUNKET

JUNKET Jun "ket, v. i.

 

Defn: 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. South.

 

JUNKET

Jun "ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing. ]

 

Defn: 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. Walpole.

 

JUNKETING

JUNKETING Jun "ket *ing, n.

 

Defn: A feast or entertainment; a revel. All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South.

 

JUNKETRIES

JUNKETRIES Jun "ket *ries, n. pl.

 

Defn: Sweetmeats. [Obs. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

junket

jun ket |ˈjəNGkit ˈʤəŋkət | ▶noun 1 a dish of sweetened and flavored curds of milk, often served with fruit. 2 informal an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense. ▶verb ( junkets, junketing , junketed ) [ no obj. ] (often as noun junketing ) informal attend or go on such a trip or celebration. DERIVATIVES jun ke teer |ˌjəNGkiˈti (ə )r |noun ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French jonquette ‘rush basket, ’ from jonc ‘rush, ’ from Latin juncus. Originally denoting a rush basket, esp. one for fish (remaining in dialect use ), the term also denoted a cream cheese, formerly made in a rush basket or served on a rush mat. A later extended sense, ‘feast, merrymaking, ’ gave rise to sense 2 of the noun .

 

Oxford Dictionary

junket

junket |ˈdʒʌŋkɪt | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] a dish of sweetened and flavoured curds of milk. 2 informal an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by government officials at public expense. ▶verb ( junkets, junketing, junketed ) [ no obj. ] (often as noun junketing ) informal attend or go on a trip or celebration at public expense. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French jonquette ‘rush basket ’, from jonc ‘rush ’, from Latin juncus. Originally denoting a rush basket, especially one for fish (remaining in dialect use ), the term also denoted a cream cheese, formerly made in a rush basket or served on a rush mat. A later extended sense, ‘feast, merrymaking ’, gave rise to sense 2 of the noun .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

junket

junket noun informal the company sponsored a New Year's Eve gambling junket: excursion, outing, spree, trip, jaunt; celebration, party, jamboree, feast, festivity; informal bash, shindig.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

junket

junket noun informal a media junket organized to stir up interest in the film. See party (sense 1 of the noun ), outing (sense 1 ).

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

junket

junk et /dʒʌ́ŋkət /名詞 1 C ｟主に米 くだけて 否定的に ｠(役人などが公費で視察名目で行く )大名旅行 .2 C U 凝乳 (料理 ) 〘牛乳を酵素で固めた甘いデザート 〙.動詞 自動詞 ｟主に米 くだけて ｠(視察名目の )大名旅行に行く [をする ].～ing 名詞 U C ｟くだけて ｠(役人をもてなす )宴会, 浮かれ騒ぎ .