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junket

jun·ket

UK/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/ US/ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/ rare dated obsolete
noun (3) verb (3)

noun

1.
2.

a journey taken for pleasure

  • “many summer excursions to the shore”
  • “it was merely a pleasure trip”
  • “after cautious sashays into the field”
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3.

verb

1.

go on a pleasure trip

2.

provide a feast or banquet for

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3.

partake in a feast or banquet

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Origin

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil. Meaning shifted to “feast or banquet” by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of “pleasure trip” (1814), and then to specifically to “trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment” by 1886 in American English.

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