younker

American  

[yuhng-ker] / ˈjʌŋ kər /

noun

1. a youngster.

2. Obsolete. a young noble or gentleman.

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younker British  

/ ˈjʌŋkə /

noun

1. archaic a young man; lad

2. obsolete a young gentleman or knight

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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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younker

"I kin understand jest 'bout how it air dun, younker," he said.

From The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners by Herbert Carter

“Much like a younker gittin’ mighty tired an’ goin’ back home to rest.

From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison

Suppose you bring little Mouse with you; I like children; and perhaps you will excuse the younker from keeping his watch to-night?

From Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

And whilst my name's Smith, there'll never be a younker to call me 'daddy,' ef a gal was to have Jerusalem tantrums after me.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

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