Dunker

[duhng-ker]

Dunk·er

[duhng-ker]
noun
a member of the Church of the Brethren, a denomination of Christians founded in Germany in 1708 and later reorganized in the U.S., characterized by the practice of trine immersion, the celebration of a love feast accompanying the Lord's Supper, and opposition to the taking of oaths and to military service.
Also, Dun·kard [duhng-kerd] , Tunker.


Origin:
1705–15, Americanism; < Pennsylvania German; see dunk, -er1
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Dunker is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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dunk (dʌŋk)
 
vb
1.  to dip (bread, etc) in tea, soup, etc, before eating
2.  to submerge or be submerged in liquid
 
[C20: from Pennsylvania Dutch, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn; see duck², tinge]
 
'dunker
 
n

Dunker or Dunkard (ˈdʌŋkə, ˈdʌŋkəd)
 
n
a member of the German Baptist Brethren
 
[C18: from German Tunker ducker]
 
Dunkard or Dunkard
 
n
 
[C18: from German Tunker ducker]

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