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  • noun Plural form of Dunker.

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Examples

  • The first German settlements were made by the Tunkers, now known as Dunkers, or

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • 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".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • We have some "Dunkers" up here but they seem a bit unapproachable, I'm not sure if their Quaker, and they are 'plain'.

    Discussion Forum - Quaker Quaker 2009

  • 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.

    The Cougar 2009

  • 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.

    The Cougar 2009

  • On March 3, 1894, the Dunkers arrived at Cando, and began a new life as wheat farmers.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • 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

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Max Bass, remarkable promotion agent of the Great Northern Railroad, gathered a colony of Dunkers from Indiana and settled them in North Dakota.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • 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 Henry Louis 1921

  • 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.

    American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

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