junketting

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.

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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