Obs. Forms: 5 iunkerye, 6 ioncrye, ionkry, iunkerie. [Of obscure origin: agrees in sense with JUNKET sb. 3 and 4, but appears much earlier.] a. A banquet or feast. b. A dainty dish or sweetmeat.
1449. Paston Lett. (1901), IV. 24. Pertrych and his felaw bere gret visage and kepe gret junkeryes and dyneres.
a. 1500. Medwall, Nature, II. 210 (Brandl), 123. There shall no gentylman … Be better serued … For a banket or a ionkry, For a dyshe .ii. or thre.
1509. Fisher, Fun. Serm. C’tess Richmond, Wks. (1876), 294. Eschewynge bankettes, reresoupers, ioncryes betwyxe meales.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., I. § 81. 104. Marchepaines or wafers wt other like iunkerie.
