banqueteering

banqueteering

1. present participle and gerund of banqueteer

banqueteering (uncountable)

1. The act of participating in banquets, particularly as a frequent activity (also used attributively).
   • 1853, William Carleton, “The Three Tasks, or, The Little House Under the Hill”, in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry‎^[1], volume 1, London: Routledge, page 105:

     […] and so, to make a long story short, such faisting and banqueteering was never seen since or before.

   • 1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain‎^[2], volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189:

     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.

   • 1922 September 9, Cyril B. Egan, “Litany of the Festive Bored”, in Judge, volume 83:

     From All Speakers and Dinners and Diners—
     From Every Banqueteering Abomination—
     Good Lord, Deliver Us!