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Junker vs Junket - What's the difference?

junker | junket |

As nouns the difference between junker and junket

is that junker is while junket is (obsolete) a basket.

As a verb junket is

to go on or attend a junket.

junker

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), a contraction of ; compare English young and herre; also younker.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers , hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.
    Alternative forms
    * Junker
    Derived terms
    * junkerdom * junkerish * junkerism

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beat-up automobile.

    • junket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A basket.
  • A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
  • * 1818 , John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?":
    • I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly [...].
  • (obsolete) A delicacy.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.4:
    • Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].
  • A feast or banquet.
  • * 1790 , Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker , Vol III. No 124., page 95
    • Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least [...].
  • A pleasure-trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
  • (gaming) 20-40 table gaming rooms for which the capacity and limits change daily. Junket rooms are often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

    • Verb

  • To go on or attend a junket.
  • * South
    • Job's children junketed and feasted together often.