different between quaker vs dunker

English

Noun

quaker (plural quakers)

1. (entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?k?(r)
• Hyphenation: qua?ker

Noun

quaker m or f (plural quakers, diminutive quakertje n)

1. Quaker (believer of the Quaker faith)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?.kœ?/, /kwa.k??/, /kwak?/

Noun

quaker m (plural quakers, feminine quakeresse)

1. Quaker (member of the Quaker faith)

Further reading

• “quaker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From English Quaker.

Noun

quaker m (plural quakeri)

1. Quaker

Declension

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