different between duiker vs dunker

English

Alternative forms

• duyker

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?k?/

Homophone: diker

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??k?/
• Rhymes: -a?k?(?)

Noun

duiker (plural duikers)

1. Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 65:

     Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: dícear

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duik +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dœi?.k?r/

Noun

duiker (plural duikers)

1. diver (a person or thing that dives)
2. duiker (a kind of small antelope)
3. diver, loon (a kind of shorebird)

Descendants

• ? English: duiker
  • ? Irish: dícear

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duiken (“to dive”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dœy?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: dui?ker
• Rhymes: -œy?k?r

Noun

duiker m (plural duikers, diminutive duikertje n, feminine duikster)

1. An underwater diver.
2. A gymnastic diver.
3. A fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert
4. A loon (N-Am) or diver (UK), waterbird of the order Gaviiformes
5. A duiker, antilope of the subfamily Cephalophinae.

Synonyms

• (a gymnastic diver): schoonspringer
• (a culvert): grondzijl, verlaat, zinker
• (a loon): zeeduiker

Hyponyms

• (an underwater diver): kikvorsman

Derived terms

• (a diver): diepzeeduiker
• (a culvert): grondduiker

Related terms

• duik

Descendants

• Afrikaans: duiker
  • ? English: duiker
    • ? Irish: dícear

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