banqueteering

banqueteering

1. present participle 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, London: Routledge, [Volume 1], p. 105,

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

   • 1907, Mark Twain, in Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith (eds.), Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, 2015, p. 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, Cyril B. Egan, “Litany of the Festive Bored,” in Judge, Volume 83, 9 September, 1922,

     From All Speakers and Dinners and Diners—

     From Every Banqueteering Abomination—

     Good Lord, Deliver Us!