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junketing

junketing is the present participle and gerund of junket.

Meaning of junket

Verb

junket (third-person singular simple present junkets, present participle junketing or junketting, simple past and past participle junketed or junketted)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To attend a junket; to feast.
    • 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.1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, page 2
    Synonyms:
    banquet
  2. (intransitive) To go on a junket; to travel.
    • Together they made trips to town or junketed over the country in search of furniture and dishes of which Miss Sally had heard.1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Miss Sally’s Letter
    Synonyms:
    gallivant, jaunt
  3. (transitive) To regale or entertain with a feast.

See all 9 meanings of junket

Noun

junketing (plural junketings)

  1. A celebratory feast or banquet.
    • Which things though not so substantially performed, are notwithstanding in some measure imitated by Witches and Magicians, I mean in their junketings; whose viands are observed to afford so little satisfaction to nature, that they leave oftentimes the partakers of them as weak and faint almost as...1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, London: W. Morden, Book 4, Chapter 5, p. 110
    • I have already been invited to Two Christenings, and several Junketings, which I hope will be no Reflection upon my Character, having heard, that you your self, Sir, will take a chirping Cup upon Occasion.1710, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq”, in The Tatler, volume 5, number 12, London: John Nutt, published 1712, page 62

Forms of junketing

pluraljunketings

Questions about junketing

What does junketing mean?
Junketing means a celebratory feast or banquet.
What is junketing the present participle and gerund of?
Junketing is the present participle and gerund of junket.
What part of speech is junketing?
Junketing is a noun.
What is the plural of junketing?
The plural of junketing is junketings.

Words near junketing in the dictionary

  1. junketeered
  2. junketeering
  3. junketeers
  4. junketer
  5. junketers
  6. junketing
  7. junketings
  8. junkets
  9. junketted
  10. junketting
  11. junkettings

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