单词 | junketing |
释义 | junketingn. 1. a. The action of feasting, banqueting, or merrymaking; (later more usually) the action of going on an excursion or pleasure trip. Also with about, around. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun] mirthOE joyc1275 jollitya1300 joy-makingc1330 good fellowship?c1430 wine and womena1450 junketing1555 merrymake1579 gaiety1612 jovialty1621 joviality1626 mirth-making1638 jovialness1658 jollitry?c1685 goodfellowhood1716 merrymaking1779 conviviality1791 jollification1818 making-merry1823 carnivalizing1841 skite1869 Wein, Weib, und Gesang1885 balling1942 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun] womb-joyc1300 feastinga1325 messing1340 comessationa1425 cheeringc1443 mangerya1470 epulation1542 junketing1555 coshering1577 coshery1582 collationing1652 potlatching1865 tuck-in1886 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 235 Their Spiritualtie vsed Iunckettyng [L. potationibus] oftener then the Laietie. ?1643 in C. J. Hoadly Rec. Colony & Plantation New Haven (1857) 81 Convicted of a great deale of base carryage and filthy dalliances wth divers young girles,..haunting wth them in night meetings and juncketting. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 331 The Apostle would have no revelling, or junketting upon the Altar. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 103 Depredations by guttling and tippling, junketting, gossiping, gaming, etc. are to be all item'd to the government. 1820 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 6 Sept. The enjoyment of a whole year's dancing and junketing. 1870 All Year Round 16 July 148/2 I can't have any junketing about for my patient. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxi. 646 The fishing and fowling and feasting and junketting that we saw. 1913 I. Wild Drum's House (1914) xxviii. 220 He had expressed an unwillingness to ride, suggesting that he was tired from his junketing overnight. 1917 Pioneer News (House, New Mexico) 17 Aug. I don't go junketing around much with my lame leg. 2009 Canberra Times (Nexis) 10 Jan. a4 There's more to The Doctor than junketing about in the Tardis. b. As a count noun (chiefly in plural). A feast, banquet, or other festive gathering; an excursion or pleasure trip, esp. one in which eating and drinking are prominent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] farmeOE feasta1200 gesteningc1200 mangerc1390 mangerya1400 junkerya1425 banquet1483 convive1483 gestonyea1500 junketa1500 festine1520 Maundy1533 junketing1577 entertainmenta1616 entertain1620 regalo1622 treatmenta1656 treat1659 regale1670 regality1672 festino1741 spreadation1780 spread1822 blowout1823 tuck-out1823 burst1849 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 95/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I In these Iunkettinges_ [1587 iunkettings] . 1629 R. Farmer Serm. Paules Crosse 26 Their compotationes tiplings, as well as their comessationes iunketings and bankettings,..are bothe together, and distinctly reproued by the Apostle. 1669 J. Horn Efficacy True Balme 67 Shun all foolish wanton company All merry junkettings and gossipings. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋3 In my Absence our Maid has let in the spruce Servants in the Neighbourhood to Junketings. 1754 Young Lady Conducted ix. 126 These Junketings were invented by Workmen's Wives. 1850 C. J. Lever Maurice Tiernay xvii in Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 468 Did they say it was a junketting we were bent upon? a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 22 Dootless he dreamed o' his junketin's still. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 274/1 Sometimes a stack of people would come here, horse back..and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river. 1929 L. W. Reese Victorian Village 274 We acquired the habit, therefore, of not setting any particular hour for..the various junketings down the bay or out into the parks. 1972 Q. Bell Virginia Woolf (1974) I. ii. 33 There were tea-parties and picnics and such like junketings. 2005 C. Hardyment Malory (2006) vii. 138 Flattering parallels between Henry V and Catherine and King Arthur and Guinevere were frequently drawn at the pageants, feasts and junketings. 2. Originally U.S. The action or practice of going on political or press junkets (see junket n. 3b, 3c). Cf. junket v. 2b. ΚΠ 1828 N.-Y. Spectator 18 July If the consideration that you are spending public money for your own private indulgencies has no influence over you, reflect on the injurious tendency which this excessive junketing has on you individually. 1936 N.Y. Times 29 Nov. n2/6 (heading) Board of Elections to reconsider Ohio trip in light of Costuma's charges of junketing. 1997 Variety (Nexis) 24 Feb. 13 Press attention at Berlin was now exclusively focused on the junketing around the big Hollywood movies. 2016 Southern Daily Echo (Nexis) 23 Aug. While many are still enduring the pain of austerity, local government junketing and civic financial excesses have continued. Compounds General attributive, as junketing dish, junketing party, junketing scandal, etc. ΚΠ 1555 J. Ponet Apologie p. cxxxxvi Take heed of your hote wynes, of your hote spyces, and continuall iunketing chere. 1580 Very Godly & Learned Treat. f. 5 To condemne the eatyng of a peece of smoaky and reasty Bacon, and to iustifie the banquetting and iunckquetting dishes before mencioned. 1602 R. Marbecke Def. Tabacco sig. B2v Good for pies, cakes, and spice-bread, and many other iunketing knackes. 1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. V. xvii. 74 Betrothing, Wedding, Groaning, Christening,..and many other Junketting Bouts that end in ing. 1775 H. L. Thrale Jrnl. 1 Oct. in French Jrnls. Mrs. Thrale & Dr. Johnson (1932) 93 Some wooden Netting in the Taste of our low Junketting Houses at Islington dropping to Pieces with Rottenness & Age. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 158 Snug junketting parties at which I have been present. 1882 Boston Daily Advertiser 9 Oct. 4/6 The junketing bill of the congressmen who attended President Garfield's funeral, is a political issue in Michigan. 1937 Somerset (Pa.) Daily Amer. 20 Nov. 4/1 Governor Earle sailed for Sweden Thursday on a junketing expedition at the expense of the overburdened taxpayers. 1993 Esquire Dec. 54/2 Travelgate sounded like a congressional junketing scandal. 2017 Markham (Ontario) Economist & Sun (Nexis) 31 Mar. 1 Members of Markham council are using some of the city's junketing budget getting to know..our northern First Nations neighbours. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). junketingadj.ΚΠ 1653 T. Hilder Conjugall Counsell 52 Their wives..are most jolly, jocund, and junketting Dames in the Townes and Places where they live. 1834 C. Darwin Let. 3 Jan. in Corr. (1985) I. 361 Catherine is now quite the junketting person in this house so eager for balls & visiting of all kinds. 1901 F. Morton in Clipper (Hobart, Tasmania) 28 Dec. 2/6 Pleasures are many, and penalties few, Toss it off gaily, my junketing crew! 2. Originally U.S. That goes on or attends political or press junkets (see junket n. 3b, 3c), esp. regularly; participating in a junket for officials or members of the media. Cf. junket v. 2b. ΚΠ 1872 N.-Y. Evangelist 21 Mar. 4/4 The junketing officials of Syracuse are not satisfied to accept the costly moral admonition which they received. 1962 N.Y. Times 20 Nov. 34/2 There is no effective check on how a junketing legislator uses his time overseas or what he does with his generous expense allowance. 1996 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 31 Dec. c1 Director Alan Parker is in the midst of telling a dozen junketing journalists about reuniting Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for his movie version of their musical, Evita. 2016 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 4 June 34 Perhaps it is time for one of our expensive, junketing politicians to visit Switzerland? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1555adj.1653 |
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