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Younker   /jˈəŋkər/   Listen
Younker

noun
1.
A young person (especially a young man or boy).  Synonyms: spring chicken, young person, youth.






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"Younker" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Well, younker, take care you have not worse dreams than that some night," he said, enigmatically, and wagged his head with a chuckle. "Worse ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... 'See here, younker, we're on our way to the 'diggin's,' and spect to be thar all summer. Ef the red-skins git any ways troublesome, I'm comin' back arter this y'ar covey. Ef yer don't want to sell him, yer needn't. Ef I bought him, it ain't likely I'd run him ...
— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis

... patronizing way; "as anybody knows as has been round the Horn. I didn't sail with Captain Cook, seeing that I was then the boatswain of the Hussar, and she couldn't have made one of Cook's squadron, being a post-ship, and commanded by a full-built captain; but I was in them seas when a younker, and can back Catfall's account of the matter by my largest anchor, in the way of history. D—e, if I think these hillocks would be called even jury mountains, in that quarter of the world. They tell ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper

... stripling, master, youth, son, minor, junior, youngling, cadet, chap, urchin, bub, sprig, callant, younker, hobbledehoy; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... feel me and you had trouble, and you got the best of it?" leered the former foreman, then scowled. "But listen to me, younker. Ye're going to run into trouble, and quicker than ye think, at that. That old cigar shaped death-trap won't float—not for long, anyway. All I'm hoping is that ye'll go in for bein' one of the crew ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham

... "Marcy, younker, whar did ye come from?" was all he could utter. But, no longer the surly man that he had been, he held out his hand to him, and looked more than pleased to ...
— Thankful Rest • Annie S. Swan



Words linked to "Younker" :   pup, schoolchild, school-age child, youth, juvenile person, blade, hobbledehoy, puppy, slip, pupil, juvenile



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