different between junker vs punker

English

Etymology 1

From German, a contraction of jung herr (“young noble”); compare English young and herre; also younker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??k?(r)/

Noun

junker (plural junkers)

1. A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers, hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.

Alternative forms

• Junker

Derived terms

• junkerdom
• junkerish
• junkerism

References

• junker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “junker”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Etymology 2

From junk +? -er.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

junker (plural junkers)

1. (informal, US, Canada) A beat-up automobile.
2. A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
   • 1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing

     An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.

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)