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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Didn't know what it meant, till Joe Drum and Sam Shad brought the younker before me, and wanted to make him out a spy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
There's a knight who lives in Suabia Questioning me about my daughter; Asks her hand from me in marriage For his son, the younker Damian.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
There was a "younker," once under him in the yard, who, just because he could read and write French, was now a cashier, with six hundred florins' salary.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
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
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
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