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younker

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Noun
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youn=ker

CIDE DICTIONARY

younkern. [D. jonker, jonkeer; jong young + heer a lord, sir, gentleman. See Young, a.].
     A young person; a stripling; a yonker.  [1913 Webster]
    "That same younker soon was overthrown."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

younker, n. archaic = YOUNGSTER.

Etymology
MDu. jonckher f. jonc YOUNG + here lord: cf. JUNKER

ROGET THESAURUS

younker

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.


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