younker
Americannoun
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a youngster.
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Obsolete. a young noble or gentleman.
noun
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archaic a young man; lad
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obsolete a young gentleman or knight
Etymology
Origin of younker
1495–1505; < Middle Dutch jonchere, equivalent to jonc young + here lord; cognate with German Junker
Example Sentences
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Fifty cents to the younker who first catches him on the nose.'
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
Nanna, clad in doublet and small-clothes, swung jauntily along, one hand on dagger-hilt and careless challenge in her snapping, black eyes, the picture of a swaggering younker.
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
“Mayhap this younker can tell you, sir,” said the man guarding the boy, and lowering his gun as he spoke.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Rowland E. Robinson
Noble lord," now answered Werner, "Spare your jokes, for you may better Use them, when the noble younker Comes here from the land of Suabia.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
A word addressed to Hanserl as to how the "younker" was doing, would be all the recognition vouchsafed me, or, at most, a short nod of the head would convey that he had seen me.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
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