younker means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Dutch joncker (Dutch jonker, jonkheer), a compound equivalent to jong (“young”) + here (“lord”). Compare junker.
noun
- A young man; a lad, youngster.““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.””
- A young gentleman or knight.“So foorth they went, and both together giusted;
But that same younker soone was overthrowne”
- A novice; a simpleton; a dupe.“Trimmed like a younker prancing to his love!”
- junker