different between ducker vs dunker

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Etymology 1

duck +? -er. Doublet of duiker.

Noun

ducker (plural duckers)

1. One who, or that which, ducks; a plunger; a diver.

Etymology 2

Noun

ducker (plural duckers)

1. Alternative form of doucker

Anagrams

• rucked

English

Etymology

dunk +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

dunker (plural dunkers)

1. Someone who dunks.
2. (basketball) A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
3. A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
4. Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
5. (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.

Anagrams

• drunke

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon dunkar, from Proto-Germanic *dunkaraz, *dunkalaz (“dark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k?r/

Adjective

dunker (comparative dunkerer, superlative dunkerest)

1. dark

Declension

Synonyms

• duster