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Dunker

American  
[duhng-ker] / ˈdʌŋ kər /
Also Dunkard

noun

  1. a member of the Church of the Brethren, a denomination of Christians founded in Germany in 1708 and later reorganized in the United States, characterized by the practice of trine immersion, the celebration of a love feast accompanying the Lord's Supper, and opposition to the taking of oaths and to military service.

Dunker British  
/ ˈdʌŋkəd, ˈdʌŋkə /

noun

  1. a member of the German Baptist Brethren

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Etymology

Origin of Dunker

An Americanism first recorded in 1705–15; from Pennsylvania Dutch; dunk, -er 1

Example Sentences

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WSU punter Nick Haberer, a Melbourne, Australia, native who hadn’t played American football before arriving on the Palouse, joined fellow specialist Lucas Dunker Jr. in thanking Rolovich on Twitter.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Andromeda Dunker, the show’s voice-over narrator since 2009, stresses that while the show, like any reality series, is produced, the only thing scripted is her commentary.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2019

“Ted Dunker is basically the most unlikely candidate to become mayor of his town,” she said of her character.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2018

Hours of ferocious charges and countercharges around sites known simply as “the Cornfield,” “the Dunker Church,” and “Bloody Lane” took 12,000 Union and 10,000 Confederate casualties.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

She had saved them a trip to the bottom of the pool because she had conquered the Dilbert Dunker, a water survival test for astronaut candidates.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

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