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Definition: Junket |
JunketNoun1. Dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet. 2. A journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field". Verb1. Go on a junket. 2. Provide a feast or banquet for. 3. Partake in a feast or banquet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "junket" was first used: 1382. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Junket Curded cream with spice, etc.; any dainty. The word is the Italian giuncata (curd or cream cheese), so called because carried on junk or bulrushes (giúneo). "You know there wants no junkets at the feast." Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Eng. A bucket used for raising rock or ore in a shaft. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Junket is the brand name of a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme which curdles milk. To make it, the milk mixture (usually with sugar and vanilla) is heated to approximately body temperature and the rennet is mixed in to cause curdling. Warmer or cooler temperatures will inactivate the rennet. The junket is then allowed to set in a refrigerator.The rennet tablets have a very long shelf life if kept sealed and not exposed to heat. Junket tablets are a common source of rennet for home cheese makers.
Junket is often served with a sprinkling of grated nutmeg on top.
The word "junket" (non-copyrighted, non-trademarked) refers to a form of bribery/corruption whereby entities offer services or privileges in the expectation of winning "hearts and minds". Compare movie junket.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Junket."
Synonyms: JunketSynonyms: excursion (n), expedition (n), jaunt (n), outing (n), pleasure trip (n), sashay (n), banquet (v), feast (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool. | |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Junket |
| English words defined with "junket": Juncate, Junketed ♦ rennet. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Junket 89 (1970) | |
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| "Junket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Junket" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "junket": water junket. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "junket": euro-junket. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
junket | 33 |
danish dessert junket | 7 |
junket las vegas | 7 |
cream ice junket | 6 |
junket rennet | 6 |
junket tour | 6 |
junket rennet tablet | 6 |
junket tablet | 5 |
junket ice cream mix | 5 |
atlantic city junket | 4 |
junket pudding | 3 |
custard junket rennet | 3 |
gambling junket | 2 |
casino junket mississippi | 2 |
dessert junket | 2 |
junket press | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "junket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qumështi i prerë me sheqer, gosti (celebration, dinner party, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, junketing, merry-meeting, party, razzle, razzle-dazzle, reception, regale, spread), bëj gosti (feast). (various references) | |
Arabic | مأدبة (banquet, feast, function, repast, spread, tuck), قام برحلة على حساب الأميرة, وليمة (banquet, feast), حفلة (binge, celebration, entertainment, exercise, festival, fete, meeting, party, set, show), حلوي هلامية (jelly), الجنكت جبن معالج بالقشدة, أقام وليمة (throw a banquet), رحلة (drive, journey, peregrination, sally, touring, travel, trip, voyage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гуляя (be on the razzle, feast, go to town, paint the town red, revel, roister, spree), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), веселя се (frolic, revel, rollick, spree), веселие (cheer, exhilaration, frolic, glee, hilarity, jollity, lark, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, revel), отивам на пикник, подсладена извара, пикник (junketing, picnic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 杏仁豆腐 (almond junket). (various references) | |
Czech | hostina (banquet, dinner, feast, regale, spread, symposium). (various references) | |
Danish | fornøjelsestur. (various references) | |
Dutch | snoepreisje. (various references) | |
Farsi | سفرتفریحی کردن , سفرتفریحی , سفر (Expedition, Journey, Pilgrimage, Progress, Rake, Tour, Trade, Trek, Trip, Voyage), سورزدن , خوش گذرانی کردن . (various references) | |
French | voyager aux frais de la princesse, voyage d'agrément, voyage aux frais de la princesse, voyage, réception, offrir un banquet, lait emprésuré, fromage parfumé, fromage frais sucré, festin, banquet. (various references) | |
German | vergnügungsreise (junketing, pleasure trip), Quarkspeise. (various references) | |
Greek | γλέντι (carousal, carouse, conviviality, festivity, jamboree, jollification, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), γλεντώ (feast, revel, spree), πικνίκ (picnic), εκδρομή (excursion, jaunt, outing), είδοσ γλυκίσματοσ (charlotte russe, fudge), διασκεδάζω (amuse, beguile, disport, enjoy, entertain, frolic, gallivant, have fun, I enjoy myself, jollify, recreate, revel, skylark, sport). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חביצ" (custard, pudding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | társas kirándulás, szórakozás államköltségen, szórakozás (amusement, distraction, divertissement, entertainment, fling, fun, high jinks, pastime, picnic, play, pleasure, recreation, refreshing, relaxation, sport), mulat (carouse, have a ball, revel, to be on the toot, to carouse, to disport, to dissipate, to go on the bust, to go on the toot, to junket, to make marry, to make merry, to racket about, to revel, to sport, to spree), lakoma (banquet, beano, bout, cheer, conviviality, feast, repast, spread), gyümölcsjoghurt. (various references) | |
Italian | viaggio premio, giuncata (cottage cheese, curd, curds, whey cheese, white cheese). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ジャンク債 (gendarme, jacket, jambalaya, jump, jumper, jumpsuit, jungle, jungle-gym, junk bonds). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ジャンケット . (various references) | |
Korean | 관비여행. (various references) | |
Manx | pinjean, lhejag, jannoo giense (carousal), giense (carousal, ceilidh, do, entertainment, feast, feasting, festival, get together, house party, revel, social), binjean (curd; eelwrack root, curdled milk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unketjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | viagem "excursão", piquenique (picnic), organizar um piquenique, guloseima de queijo, festim (carousal, feast, feast-day, kick-up, regale, symposium, wassail), festa (celebration, feast, feast-day, festival, festivity, fete, feteday, function, gala, merriment, party, playday, revel, treat), fazer uma festa, doce (bland, comfit, confection, confectionery, dulcet, gentle, honeyed, kiss, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, nicy, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, tender). (various references) | |
Romanian | smântânã (cream, flower, head), se ospãta în aer liber, picnic (outing, picnic), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, merry making, party, spree), petrece (accompany, carouse, celebrate, end, feast, frolic, go with, happen, live, make good cheer, pass, revel, spend, spree, suffer, undergo), organiza un picnic (picnic), lapte gras, chefui (booze, carouse, feast, go on the spree, revel, spree, tipple), cheag de lapte. (various references) | |
Russian | молочный кисель, пиршество (repast), пировать (carouse, feast, make good cheer, make merry, regale, revel, revelry, wassailed), пикник (basket dinner, basket lunch, basket picnic, fete champetre, junketing, partying, picnic). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usireno mleko, provoditi se, provod (fun, pastime), izlet (excursion, hike, jaunt, outing, picnic), ići na izlet (picnic). (various references) | |
Spanish | jira (excursion, picnic, tour), viaje de recreo (pleasure trip), velada (cocktail party, social, soiree, thrash, watch), tipo de cuajada, paseo (alley, constitutional, corridor, crossing, drive, excursion, expedition, gut, Mall, outing, passage, perambulation, promenade, public walking, ride, row, sail, Sally, saunter, spin, stroll, tour, trip, walk, walking, wander), noche (evening, love, night, night time), ir de juerga, ir de jira, fiesta (carnival, celebration, convocation, do, feast, feast day, festival, fete, feteday, frolic, gala, holiday, leap day, party, shindig, shindy), excursión (cruise, excursion, hike, jaunt, outing, picnic, raid, run, sightseeing trip, spree, tour, trek, trip), estar de fiesta, estar de descanso, dulce de leche cuajada. (various references) | |
Swedish | utflykt (airing, excursion, expedition, jaunt, outing, picknic, picnic, ramble, Sally, trip), fest (celebration, do, feast, fest, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, frolic, party, revel). (various references) | |
Turkish | ziyafet (banquet, beanfeast, beano, dinner, dinner party, entertainment, feast, spread, treat), yoğurt benzeri yiyecek, yiyip içmek, yiyip içme, bedava geziye çıkmak, bedava gezi, alem yapmak (booze, go on a spree, go on the booze, go on the razzle-dazzle, hit the booze, make whoopee, revel, rollick), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | улаштовувати пікнік, солодкий сир з вершками, гулянка (beanfeast, beano, booze, revel, revelry, wassail, whiz, whizz), бенкетувати (banquet, carouse, feast, hobnob, make whoopee, regale, revel), пікнік (barbecue, outing, picnic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sữa đông cuộc liên hoan. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | juncus. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | juncata. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "junket": junketed, junketeer, junketeers, junketer, junketers, junketing, junkets. (additional references) | |
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"Junket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Janke, Jnhetc, jonet, juncal, juncket, junct, junet, juney, Jungst, junke, junkett, junki, junkish, junkit, junkst. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "junket" (pronounced ju"ngkut) |
| 4 | -ng k u t | blanket, trinket. |
| 3 | -k u t | aftermarket, advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-j-k-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: juke, junk, jute, kent, kune, neuk, nuke, tune. | |
-3 letters: jet, jeu, jun, jut, ken, kue, net, nut, ten, tun, uke. | |
-4 letters: en, et, ne, nu, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-j-k-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: junkets. | |
+2 letters: junketed, junketer, junkiest. | |
+3 letters: junketeer, junketers, junketing. | |
+4 letters: junketeers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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