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- noun Plural form of
Dunker .
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Examples
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The first German settlements were made by the Tunkers, now known as Dunkers, or
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Just got back from LA and since they do not have any stores in Florida, I of course carried a whole shopping bag full of containers of "Dunkers".
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We have some "Dunkers" up here but they seem a bit unapproachable, I'm not sure if their Quaker, and they are 'plain'.
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A couple fat cops are walking around like they're wondering how much longer 'til they can go to Spunky Dunkers for coffee and a glazed.
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A couple fat cops are walking around like they're wondering how much longer 'til they can go to Spunky Dunkers for coffee and a glazed.
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On March 3, 1894, the Dunkers arrived at Cando, and began a new life as wheat farmers.
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There is no great skill in killing and being killed for six sous per day, but there is much in causing the republic of Dunkers to flourish — these new
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Max Bass, remarkable promotion agent of the Great Northern Railroad, gathered a colony of Dunkers from Indiana and settled them in North Dakota.
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The New English Dictionary refers it to the German autsch, and Thornton says that it may have come across with the Dunkers or the Mennonites.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences
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Mennonites, the Dunkers, and the Palatines were among these, but by far the most important were the so-called Scotch-Irish -- Scotchmen who, a century before, had been sent to Ireland by the English government, in the hope of establishing there a Protestant population which would, in time, come to outnumber and control the native Irish.
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