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
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"It is well," said the old man, "that the younker should look about him in the world; he may get shaken out of his day dreams."
From Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
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
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
If there be a bear to be baited at Kenilworth Green, who so sure to be there as this younker.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Say, younker," commenced Abe Cozzins, in a whining voice, "we ain't got no grudge aginst yuh for what yuh done.
From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by St. George Rathborne
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