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Definition: Dunker |
DunkerNoun1. An eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; "he was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in". 2. A basketball player who is able to make dunk shots. 3. (dialectal) an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Dunker \Dun"ker\, noun. [German tunken to dip.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DunkerSynonyms: Dunkard (n), Tunker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker; ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dunker |
| English words defined with "dunker": Dunbird. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Dunker Betty (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Du Cabinet de Mr. le Duc de Choiseul. / B.A. Dunker. G. Metsu pinx. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dunker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dunker | Last name | 400 | 23,090 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dunker thilo | 17 |
dunker | 17 |
church dunker | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dunker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Dunker's hoereroer (Dunker auditive tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | tube acoustique de Dunker (Dunker auditive tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Dunker Hoerschlauch (Dunker auditive tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακουστικός σωλήνας Dunker (Dunker auditive tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unkerday tubo auditivo de Dunker (Dunker auditive tube). (various references) tubo acústico de Dunker (Dunker auditive tube). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dunker": dunkers. (additional references) | |
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"Dunker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dauncer, Denker, Dinkar, donker, Donkor, donnker, douker, duker, duncery, Dunderl, duner, dunka, dunkee, dunken, Dunkerly, dunkey, Dunkil, Dunkler, Dunner, dunter, funker, Munkar, sunker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dunker" (pronounced du"ngker) |
| 4 | -u" ng k er | bunker, clunker, hunker, junker, plunker, younker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | anchor, banker, canker, conquer, danker, drinker, freethinker, hanker, linker, pinker, rancor, ranker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, tanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-k-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: drunk, nuder, nuked, under. | |
-2 letters: drek, duke, dune, dunk, dure, durn, kern, knur, kune, nerd, neuk, nude, nuke, nurd, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde. | |
-3 letters: den, due, dun, end, ern, ken, kue, red, rue, run, uke, urd, urn. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, en, er, ne, nu, re, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-k-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: drunken, drunker, dunkers, knurled, runkled, trunked, unraked. | |
+2 letters: bunkered, debunker, drunkest, hunkered, unbraked, uncorked, unforked, unkinder, unmarked, unranked, unworked. | |
+3 letters: debunkers, drunkenly, outranked, overdrunk, uncracked, undertake, undertook, unfrocked. | |
+4 letters: bankrupted, kerplunked, krugerrand, underskirt, undertaken, undertaker, undertakes, undertrick, unkindlier, unprovoked, unpuckered, unremarked, wunderkind. | |
+5 letters: drunkenness, krugerrands, strikebound, unbracketed, underskirts, undertakers, undertaking, undertricks, undrinkable, unearmarked, wunderkinds. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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