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noun
1.
a sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet.
2.
a pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing.
3.
a trip, as by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.
verb (used without object)
4.
to go on a junket.
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verb (used with object)
5.
to entertain; feast; regale.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English jonket < Old French (dial.) jonquette rush basket, equivalent to jonc (< Latin juncus reed) + -ette -ette
1350–1400; Middle English jonket < Old French (dial.) jonquette rush basket, equivalent to jonc (< Latin juncus reed) + -ette -ette
Related forms
jun·ket·er, noun
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Word Origin & History
junket
1382, "basket in which fish are caught or carried," from M.L. juncata "rush basket," perhaps from L. juncus "rush." Shifted meaning 1530 to "feast, banquet," probably via notion of a picnic basket, which led to extended sense of "pleasure trip" (1814), and then to "tour by government official at public
EXPANDexpense for no discernable public benefit" (1886, Amer.Eng.). Cf. It. cognate giuncata "cream cheese" (originally made in a rush basket).
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