YOUNKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does younker mean? 

• YOUNKER (noun)
  The noun YOUNKER has 1 sense:

1. a young person (especially a young man or boy)

  Familiarity information: YOUNKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person (especially a young man or boy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth

Hypernyms ("younker" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "younker"):

blade (a dashing young man)

hobbledehoy (an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy)

pup; puppy (an inexperienced young person)

pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))

slip (a young and slender person)

 Context examples 

Ah! the peace has come too soon for that younker.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)