Definitions for junket

junket jun·ket

Spelling: [juhng-kit]
IPA: /ˈdʒʌŋ kɪt/

Junket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in junket (ejkntu).

Definitions for junket

noun

  1. a sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet.
  2. a pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing.
  3. a trip, as by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.

verb (used with object)

  1. to entertain; feast; regale.

verb (used without object)

  1. to go on a junket.

Origin of junket

1350-1400; Middle English jonket Old French (dial.) jonquette rush basket, equivalent to jonc (Latin juncus reed) + -ette -ette

Examples for junket

Marriage is like the rennet you put into the junket—it turns it!

They'd come on this junket partly to get away from their troubles and their wives.

The only downside for the Congressman was if their junket became public.

On a Congressional junket, paid for by a private party, you have tens of hours of exclusive time with a Congressmen.

There were cakes of all varieties; there was clotted cream; and of course there was junket.

When somebody wanted junket, he had made no fuss, he had just helped them to junket.

In an interview the day after the junket for The Town, Affleck resisted being neatly boxed into the comeback story narrative.

Stir the junket tablet in the cold water till it melts, and add this.

I've been on exactly one 10-day junket to China, so I'm hardly qualified to answer that question.

“It was like a performance,” Paltrow told an ITN reporter during the Two Lovers junket.

Word Value for junket
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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