单词 | junketer |
释义 | junketern. 1. Originally: a person who holds or attends a feast, banquet, or other festive gathering; a reveller, a partygoer. Later more usually: a person who goes on an outing or pleasure trip; an excursionist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] mirth-maker1592 junketer1721 merrymaker1797 junketeer1825 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun] > feaster feastera1500 banqueter1549 convival1615 convive1651 convivatora1656 junketer1721 banqueteer1821 junketeer1825 feastress1837 tuck-hunter1840 1721 Memorial Contractants Mr. Aislabie 39 These execrable miscreant Roysters, Junketers on the Bane and Groans of the People. a1743 J. Cannon Chrons. (2010) II. 474 This match was carryed on by Edward Martin & his wife, two as good junketers as any in the town. 1825 W. Scott Let. 29 Nov. (1935) IX. 319 I have been askd to meet Lord Melville at several parties which has made me more of a junketter than usual. 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Aug. Steamboat companies, which..are sadly prone to carry excursionists and junketers about on Sundays. 1873 M. E. Braddon Strangers & Pilgrims iii. xii. 353 Mild refreshment in the way of white-wine negus and raspberry-jam tarts was dispensed between nine o'clock and ten; when the junketers dispersed more or less unwillingly to their several chambers. 2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 May 13 Time Place 4 lets world travellers and far-flung friends manage time-zone differences with ease... If you're a dedicated junketer, buy it as part of the Time Traveller suite. 2. Originally U.S. A person who goes on a political or official junket (see junket n. 3b); (also) a person who goes on or to a press or publicity junket (see junket n. 3c). Cf. junket v. 2b, junketeer n. ΚΠ 1862 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 19 June 5/3 On what principle of public economy are these junketers, even though they are Congressmen and public officers, allowed the use of steamboats at an expense from $300 to $500 per day? 1879 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 20 Mar. 7/1 Tired of the appellation of junketers,..the Senate adopted the concurrent resolution reducing the number of Senators upon each visiting committee to two. 1962 Human Events 3 Nov. 839/2 He led a pack of Administration junketers to study Soviet electric power installations. 1992 P. Theroux Happy Isles Oceania xxiv. 686 They are mainly junketers, people on press trips; and they often travel with their spouses..making travel writing one of the last Mom and Pop businesses in America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721 |
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