Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young man.
- noun A child.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young man of condition; a young gentleman or knight.
- noun A young person; a lad; a youngster.
- noun A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
- noun Same as
junker .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Colloq. A young person; a stripling; a yonker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a young man; a
lad ,youngster - noun obsolete a young
gentleman orknight - noun obsolete a
novice ; asimpleton ; adupe - noun
junker
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young person (especially a young man or boy)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Moreover, I described to my company the tent and all the riches and rarities therein and said to them, “Know ye that this youth would not have cut himself off from society and have taken up his abode alone in this place, were he not a man of great prowess: so I propose that whoso slayeth the younker shall take his sister.”
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Let me sell you the fulltroth of Burrus when he wore a younker.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Wolfgang and Rudolf especially held out their hands to the younker, and besought the honor of his friendship.
Burlesques 2006
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Wolfgang and Rudolf especially held out their hands to the younker, and besought the honor of his friendship.
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What, will you make a younker of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?
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“Well, younker, take care you have not worse dreams than that some night,” he said, enigmatically, and wagged his head with a chuckle.
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They expressed their wonder that he had not informed them of this relationship before; he replied that he did not wish the younker to be favoured; he knew his nephew would pass a good examination, and he had not been deceived.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993
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You've shown yourself pretty tough and resourceful for a younker.
Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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I can remember when I was a younker we used to go fishing for cod off the Dogger Bank, which is a great ridge of hills at the bottom of the sea, not far from the coast of Holland.
Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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In the second act David the apprentice tells Magdalene, Eva's nurse, that the new singer did not succeed, at which she is honestly grieved, preferring the gallant younker for her mistress, to the old and ridiculous clerk.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
yarb commented on the word younker
The broker, who saw my inclination, told me I had a very correct taste. By all that is sacred! exclaimed he, it is plain you are no younker.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 15
September 12, 2008
bilby commented on the word younker
As the shades of ev'ning close,
Beck'ning thee to long repose;
As life itself becomes disease,
Seek the chimney-nook of ease;
There ruminate with sober thought,
On all thou'st seen, and heard, and wrought,
And teach the sportive younkers round,
Saws of experience, sage and sound:
Say, man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not,-Arth thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow?
- Robert Burns, 'Written In Friars Carse Hermitage'.
January 28, 2009
qms commented on the word younker
The boys at the bar slump and hunker
And lie as they get ever drunker.
Truth little avails
To tame their tall tales
Of conquests each made as a younker.
October 26, 2017