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youngker

youngker is the alternative form of younker.

Meaning of younker

Noun

younker (plural younkers)

  1. (archaic) A young man; a lad, youngster.
    • “Jim,” says he, “I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles. I’d have had you but for that there lurch, but I don’t have no luck, not I; and I reckon I’ll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim.”1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
  2. (obsolete) A young gentleman or knight.
    • So foorth they went, and both together giusted;
      But that same younker soone was overthrowne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete) A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.
    • Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  4. junker

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Forms of youngker

pluralyoungkers

Questions about youngker

What is youngker the alternative form of?
Youngker is the alternative form of younker.

Words near youngker in the dictionary

  1. younging
  2. younginid
  3. younginids
  4. youngins
  5. youngish
  6. youngker
  7. youngkers
  8. Youngkin
  9. Youngkins
  10. younglet
  11. younglets

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