different between dunker vs punker

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

English

Etymology

punk +? -er

Noun

punker (plural punkers)

1. (music, dated slang) Synonym of punk: a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
   • 1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, "Burnin' With the 8 Ball", Chicago Reader:

     And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.

   • 2006, John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun (page 72)

     She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker. She always had some punk group on her headset.

Anagrams

• unperk

Dutch

Etymology

Either borrowed from English punker or natively formed from punk +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.k?r/
• Hyphenation: pun?ker

Noun

punker m (plural punkers)

1. (music) A punk (fan of punk rock, member of the punk subculture); (by extension) anyone with a mohawk or a similar distinct hairstyle.

   Synonym: punk

Estonian

Noun

punker (genitive punkri, partitive punkrit)

1. bunker

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pønker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pø?k??/

Noun

punker m (definite singular punkeren, indefinite plural punkere, definite plural punkerne)

1. punk (punk rocker)