Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young man.
- n. A child.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A young man of condition; a young gentleman or knight.
- n. A young person; a lad; a youngster.
- n. A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
- n. Same as junker.
Wiktionary
- n. a young man; a lad, youngster
- n. obsolete a young gentleman or knight
- n. obsolete a novice; a simpleton; a dupe
- n. junker
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Obs. or Colloq. A young person; a stripling; a yonker.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a young person (especially a young man or boy)
Etymologies
- From Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong ("young") + here ("lord"). Compare junker. (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete Dutch jonchere, young nobleman, from Middle Dutch : jonc, young; see yeu- in Indo-European roots + here, lord. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Moreover, I described to my company the tent and all the riches and rarities therein and said to them, “Know ye that this youth would not have cut himself off from society and have taken up his abode alone in this place, were he not a man of great prowess: so I propose that whoso slayeth the younker shall take his sister.””
“Wolfgang and Rudolf especially held out their hands to the younker, and besought the honor of his friendship.”
“Let me sell you the fulltroth of Burrus when he wore a younker.”
“What, will you make a younker of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?”
““Well, younker, take care you have not worse dreams than that some night,” he said, enigmatically, and wagged his head with a chuckle.”
“They expressed their wonder that he had not informed them of this relationship before; he replied that he did not wish the younker to be favoured; he knew his nephew would pass a good examination, and he had not been deceived.”
“You've shown yourself pretty tough and resourceful for a younker.”
“I can remember when I was a younker we used to go fishing for cod off the Dogger Bank, which is a great ridge of hills at the bottom of the sea, not far from the coast of Holland.”
“In the second act David the apprentice tells Magdalene, Eva's nurse, that the new singer did not succeed, at which she is honestly grieved, preferring the gallant younker for her mistress, to the old and ridiculous clerk.”
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
“So follow your bent, younker, and they cannot say you are without”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘younker’.
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phrontistery-y
from phrontistery.info
yuke, yuft, yu, yrneh, ypsiliform, yperite, yowie, yordim, yoni, yttriferous, yon, yomp and 63 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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Original, and amusing terms alternati...
Amusing, rarely used, yet accurate words to use when addressing friends or acquaintances.
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Finnegan
...from swerve of shore to bend of bay,...all's fair in vannesy...and in Finnegans Wake.
Other terms used or coined by Joyce may be found at inkhorn's list Joycean Vocab.riverrun, wielderfight, vannesy, arclight, ringsome, tumptytumtoes, sinduced, neatlight, baubletop, troublant, nabir, wabsanti and 765 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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Duped
Those who are easily duped.
cully, cull, gudgeon, gull, gull-gallant, chouse, geck, chump, fall guy, mark, fool, mug and 39 more...
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bilby
As the shades of ev'ning close,
Beck'ning thee to long repose;
As life itself becomes disease,
Seek the chimney-nook of ease;
There ruminate with sober thought,
On all thou'st seen, and heard, and wrought,
And teach the sportive younkers round,
Saws of experience, sage and sound:
Say, man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not,-Arth thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow?
- Robert Burns, 'Written In Friars Carse Hermitage'. Jan 28, 2009
yarb The broker, who saw my inclination, told me I had a very correct taste. By all that is sacred! exclaimed he, it is plain you are no younker.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 15 Sep 12, 2008