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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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
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
“Fill the breast o’ yer shirt with hunks o’ corn cake, younker.
From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison
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
Fifty cents to the younker who first catches him on the nose.'
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
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