younker
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- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of younker
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(archaic)A young man; a lad, youngster.
““Jim,” says he, “I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles. I’d have had you but for that there lurch, but I don’t have no luck, not I; and I reckon I’ll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim.””
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noun
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(archaic)A young man; a lad, youngster.
““Jim,” says he, “I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles. I’d have had you but for that there lurch, but I don’t have no luck, not I; and I reckon I’ll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim.””
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(obsolete)A young gentleman or knight.
“So foorth they went, and both together giusted; But that same younker soone was overthrowne”
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(obsolete)A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
“Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!”
- junker
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong (“young”) + here (“lord”). Compare junker.
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