单词 | junketing scandal |
释义 | > as lemmasjunketing scandal 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. < as lemmas |
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