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Regatta vs Junket - What's the difference?

regatta | junket |

As nouns the difference between regatta and junket

is that regatta is a series of boat races, although sometimes used for a single race while junket is (obsolete) a basket.

As a verb junket is

to go on or attend a junket.

regatta

English

(wikipedia regatta)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A series of boat races, although sometimes used for a single race.
  • A striped cotton fabric.

    • 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  • A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.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.