dunker

See also: Dunker

English

Etymology

From dunk +‎ -er (agent noun suffix) or +‎ -er (patient suffix).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)

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. (nautical) 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): /dʊŋkər/

Adjective

dunker (comparative dunkerer, superlative dunkerest)

1. dark

Declension

Declension of dunker

	nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
	Strong declension
Masculine	dunker	dunkeren	dunkerem(e) (dunkerennote)	dunkeres
Neuter		dunker
Feminine		dunkere	dunkerer(e)
Plural	dunkere		dunkeren	dunkerer(e)
	Weak declension
Masculine	dunkere	dunkeren	dunkeren
Neuter		dunkere
Feminine		dunkeren
Plural	dunkeren
The longer forms become rarer in the course of the period.

Synonyms

• duster