dunker
See also: Dunker
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(r)
Noun
dunker (plural dunkers)
- Someone who dunks.
- (basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
- A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
- Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
- (naval) A kind of sonobuoy.
- 1986, Jane's Defence Weekly (volume 6, page 1285)
- Active sonar, for aircraft purposes still largely associated with dunking, suffers less variability but often has less range. […] Development of both dunkers and sonobuoys continues towards lower frequencies, implying bigger arrays, and deeper deployments.
- 2013, Philip Kaplan, Naval Air: Celebrating a Century of Naval Flying (page 179)
- Then they drop the dunker into the water and spin it around a few times so you end up upside-down.
- 1986, Jane's Defence Weekly (volume 6, page 1285)
Anagrams
Middle Low German
Etymology
From Old Saxon dunkar, from Proto-Germanic *dunkaraz, *dunkalaz (“dark”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dunker (comparative dunkerer, superlative dunkerest)
Declension
Declension of dunker
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strong declension | ||||
Masculine | dunker | dunkeren | dunkerem(e) (dunkerennote) | dunkeres |
Neuter | dunker | |||
Feminine | dunkere | dunkerer(e) | ||
Plural | dunkere | dunkeren | dunkerer(e) | |
Weak declension | ||||
Masculine | dunkere | dunkeren | dunkeren | |
Neuter | dunkere | |||
Feminine | dunkeren | |||
Plural | dunkeren | |||
The longer forms become rarer in the course of the period. |
Synonyms
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- Middle Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
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