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Younker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Younker has 1 sense
- younker(n = noun.person) spring chicken, young person, youth - a young person (especially a young man or boy); Array is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has particulars: blade, hobbledehoy, pup, puppy, pupil, school-age child, schoolchild, slip
CIDE DICTIONARY
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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