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younker
[ yuhng-ker ]
noun
- a youngster.
- Obsolete. a young noble or gentleman.
younker
/ ˈjʌŋkə /
noun
- archaic.a young man; lad
- obsolete.a young gentleman or knight
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Origin of younker1
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Example Sentences
Sit down by the fire, younker, and rest yourself; for youll have to go out with us again to-night, though not very far off.
I've said that if he produces the younker, and we find he hain't been harmed, why we'll call it a joke and drop the whole thing.
Do you remember the time, younker, when I gave the frigate my top-sails, in beating out of the Chesapeake?
I was then a younker, and went out with the Delawares, because I know'd they were a scandalized and wronged race.
"Well, I reckon every feller in town knew about that before the younker had been here half an hour," grinned the Warden.
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