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junket 音标拼音: [dʒ'ʌŋkɪt] vi. 用公费游山玩水,设宴
vt. 宴请
n. 凝乳食品,用公费游山玩水,宴请 用公费游山玩水,设宴宴请凝乳食品,用公费游山玩水,宴请 junket n 1: dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet 2: a journey taken for pleasure; " many summer excursions to the shore"; " it was merely a pleasure trip"; " after cautious sashays into the field" [ synonym: { excursion}, { jaunt}, { outing}, { junket}, { pleasure trip}, { expedition}, { sashay}] 3: a trip taken by an official at public expense v 1: go on a pleasure trip [ synonym: { junketeer}, { junket}] 2: provide a feast or banquet for [ synonym: { feast}, { banquet}, { junket}] 3: partake in a feast or banquet [ synonym: { feast}, { banquet}, { junket}] Junket \ Jun" ket\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Junketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Junketing}.] To give entertainment to; to feast. [ 1913 Webster] The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. -- Walpole. [ 1913 Webster]
Junket \ Jun" ket\, n. [ 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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. [ 1913 Webster] How Faery Mab the junkets eat. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. -- Chapman. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A feast; an entertainment. [ 1913 Webster] A new jaunt or junket every night. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one' s duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country. [ PJC]
Junket \ Jun" ket\, v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. [ 1913 Webster] Job' s children junketed and feasted together often. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 42 Moby Thesaurus words for " junket": Charlotte, campaign, carrot pudding, chocolate mousse, circuit, course, custard, duff, excursion, expedition, flan, grand tour, jaunt, journey, mousse, outing, package tour, peregrination, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, plum pudding, progress, pudding, rennet, round trip, roundabout, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, stalk, steamed pudding, syllabub, tapioca pudding, tour, trek, trifle, trip, turn, vanilla pudding, voyage
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