junket
noun
[ ˈdʒʌŋkɪt ]
• an extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense.
• "the latest row over city council junkets"
Similar:
celebration,
party,
jamboree,
feast,
festivity,
revelry,
spree,
excursion,
outing,
trip,
jaunt,
do,
bash,
shindy,
shindig,
shebang,
beanfeast,
jolly,
thrash,
bunfight,
beano,
jollo,
shivoo,
ding-dong,
• a dish of sweetened and flavoured curds of milk.
• "a plate of junket"
junket
verb
• attend or go on a trip or celebration at public expense.
• "the mayor junketed off to Christchurch for a cricket match last week"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French jonquette ‘rush basket’, from jonc ‘rush’, from Latin juncus . Originally denoting a rush basket, especially one for fish (remaining in dialect use), the term also denoted a cream cheese, formerly made in a rush basket or served on a rush mat. A later extended sense, ‘feast, merrymaking’, gave rise to junket (sense 1 of the noun).
