Junketing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Junketing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of junket.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of junket.
More Meanings
- A celebratory feast or banquet.
Example Sentences
The usual junketings of the times attended the opening of the line.
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.
[…] think o’ them poor women up i’ the villages there, as niver stir a hundred yards from home,—it ’ud be a pity for anybody to buy up their bargains. Lors, it’s as good as a junketing to ’em when they see me wi’ my pack, an’ I shall niver pick up such bargains for ’em again.
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 if they had eaten nothing […]
Word Forms
- junketings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include banquet, feast, jaunt, excursion, outing, expedition.
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