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banqueteering en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of participating in banquets, particularly as a frequent activity (also used attributively).
   • […] and so, to make a long story short, such faisting and banqueteering was never seen since or before. 1853, William Carleton, “The Three Tasks, or, The Little House Under the Hill”, in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, volume 1, London: Routledge, page 105:
   • From All Speakers and Dinners and Diners— From Every Banqueteering Abomination— Good Lord, Deliver Us! 1922 September 9, Cyril B. Egan, “Litany of the Festive Bored”, in Judge, volume 83:
   • Three seasons ago I was still keeping up the banqueteering habit—a habit which had its beginning in 1869 or ’70 and had been continued season by season, thereafter, over that long stretch of thirty-five or thirty-six years. 1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189:

banqueteering en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of banqueteer
   form of banqueteer