vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb JUNKET; feasting, banqueting, merrymaking; also (chiefly U.S.), a going on a pleasure excursion, picnicking; with a and pl.: A feast, banquet, picnic, etc.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. x. 235. Their Spiritualtie vsed Iunckettyng [L. potationibus] oftener then the Laietie.
1577. Harrison, England, II. vi. (1877), I. 151. In these iunkettings.
1667. South, Serm. Ps. lxxxvii. 2. The apostle would have no revelling, or junketting upon the altar.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 466, ¶ 3. In my Absence our Maid has let in the spruce Servants in the Neighbourhood to Junketings.
1731. Gentl. Mag., I. 101/2. Depredations by guttling and tippling, junketting, gossiping, gaming, &c. are to be all item’d to the Government.
1876. Green, Stray Stud., 47. To the priest of course Carnival is simply a farewell to worldly junketings and a welcome to Lent.
1877. Amelia B. Edwards, Up Nile, xxi. 646. The fishing and fowling and feasting and junketting that we saw.
b. attrib., as junketing dish, house, party, trip.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. lxviii. 298. The seede … is often vsed in comfits, or serued at the table with other iunketting dishes.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 148. The same being put into iunketting dishes … giueth vnto them a delectable … taste.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., II. 158. Snug junketting parties at which I have been present.
1893. ‘Q.’ [Quiller-Couch], Delect. Duchy, 67. The morals of the junketing houses underwent change.
