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Younker

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A young man; a lad, youngster. archaic

    "“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.”"

  2. 2
    a young person (especially a young man or boy) wordnet
  3. 3
    A young gentleman or knight. obsolete

    "So foorth they went, and both together giusted; But that same younker soone was overthrowne"

  4. 4
    A novice; a simpleton; a dupe. obsolete

    "Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!"

  5. 5
    junker

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong (“young”) + here (“lord”). Compare junker.

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