The Only Use of
junket
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.†
Chpt 18junketings = trips taken for pleasure and paid for by someone else
Definitions:
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(1)
(junket) a trip taken for pleasure and paid for by someone else
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Junket is most commonly used to describe an enjoyable trip taken by a public official that is paid for by the government or by a special interest group. It is also commonly used to reference trips taken by executives. Much more rarely, junket can reference any excursion taken for pleasure (regardless of how it is financed); or a dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet.