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junket
(encz) | junket,tvaroh se smetanou Zdeněk Brož |
junket
(encz) | junket,výlet za podnikové peníze Zdeněk Brož |
Junket
(gcide) | Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Junketing.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
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The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. --Walpole.
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Junket
(gcide) | 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.]
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1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
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How Faery Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.
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Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets. --Chapman.
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2. A feast; an entertainment.
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A new jaunt or junket every night. --Thackeray.
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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.
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Junket
(gcide) | 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.
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Job's children junketed and feasted together often.
--South.
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junket
(wn) | 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" [syn: 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 [syn: junketeer, junket]
2: provide a feast or banquet for [syn: feast, banquet,
junket]
3: partake in a feast or banquet [syn: feast, banquet,
junket] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
junket
(encz) | junket,tvaroh se smetanou Zdeněk Brožjunket,výlet za podnikové peníze Zdeněk Brož |
junketeer
(encz) | junketeer, |
junketer
(encz) | junketer, |
junketing
(encz) | junketing, n: |
Junketed
(gcide) | Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Junketing.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
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The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. --Walpole.
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Junketing
(gcide) | Junket \Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Junketing.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
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The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. --Walpole.
[1913 Webster]Junketing \Jun"ket*ing\, n.
1. A feast or entertainment; a revel.
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All those snug junketings and public gormandizings
for which the ancient magistrates were equally
famous with their modern successors. --W. Irving.
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The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon
the altar. --South.
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2. The act or process of taking a junket[3].
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Junketries
(gcide) | Junketries \Jun"ket*ries\, n. pl.
Sweetmeats. [Obs.]
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Water junket
(gcide) | Water junket \Wa"ter jun"ket\ (Zool.)
The common sandpiper.
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junket
(wn) | 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" [syn: 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 [syn: junketeer, junket]
2: provide a feast or banquet for [syn: feast, banquet,
junket]
3: partake in a feast or banquet [syn: feast, banquet,
junket] |
junketeer
(wn) | junketeer
v 1: go on a pleasure trip [syn: junketeer, junket] |
junketing
(wn) | junketing
n 1: taking an excursion for pleasure |
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