英:['jʌŋkə]
美:['jʌŋkə]
英:['jʌŋkə]
美:['jʌŋkə]
词根:younker
n.youngster 年轻人;少年
约于1500年,指“年轻贵族”,源自中古荷兰语 jonckher(荷兰语 jonker),由 jonc “年轻”(参见 young(形容词))和 here “领主,主人”(参见 Herr)组成。与 junker 相似。
Dutch jonker young nobleman
The first known use of younker was in 1505
1 If there be a bear to be baited at Kenilworth Green, who so sure to be there as this younker.
2 “Mayhap this younker can tell you, sir,” said the man guarding the boy, and lowering his gun as he spoke.
3 But just do you come and have a look at the younker.
4 One of them nearly killed me once when I was a younker, now near twenty years ago, just for being a little over-civil to one of their women.
5 “Tell ye, don’t know ye, younker,” said my gentleman, folding his arms, and attempting to look magnificent and strange.
6 "I'll be hanged if I hadn't forgot all about that younker!"
7 Eh, younker, that tickles your fancy,' cried he to Santron, who, in spite of himself, made some gesture of impatience.
8 And as to what younker says about flinging a rope,--a rope's end for it!
9 "It is well," said the old man, "that the younker should look about him in the world; he may get shaken out of his day dreams."
10 He said, my papa said: ‘Suppose younkers we start a circus of our own?’
11 No one here nor there will want to deny it; but what I axes is, who’s to have charge of the younker?
12 There was a "younker," once under him in the yard, who, just because he could read and write French, was now a cashier, with six hundred florins' salary.
13 You ain't the only younker or man either who has lost all by a little slip.
14 "I kin understand jest 'bout how it air dun, younker," he said.
15 "But this younker has made an infernal confusion."
16 Nanna, clad in doublet and small-clothes, swung jauntily along, one hand on dagger-hilt and careless challenge in her snapping, black eyes, the picture of a swaggering younker.
17 A couple of younkers flew up the rigging of each smack, with the agility of monkeys, to execute the order.
18 There's a knight who lives in Suabia Questioning me about my daughter; Asks her hand from me in marriage For his son, the younker Damian.
19 "And now the time has come to square matters up with you, younker," went on Hinkey tauntingly.
20 Yielding to that waggish disposition which was a marked characteristic of Simon Kenton, sometimes under the most trying circumstances, the ranger said: "Come on, younker, you shall take care of me."
1 小孩
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2 小伙子
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3 年轻人
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