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Banker vs Yanker - What's the difference?

banker | yanker |

As nouns the difference between banker and yanker

is that banker is banker (who works in the banking industry) while yanker is someone who yanks, or gives a sudden hard pull.

banker

English

Etymology 1

From bank + , after French banquier

Noun

(wikipedia banker) (en noun)
  • One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
  • (obsolete) A money changer.
  • The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
  • The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
  • (Weale)

    Etymology 2

    From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -er

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
  • (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
  • * 1941 , (Ernestine Hill), My Love Must Wait , A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
  • But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
    (Grabb)

    Etymology 3

    From . (Bank engine)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
  • Synonyms
    * (railway locomotive) bank engine (UK), helper engine (US)

    yanker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who yanks, or gives a sudden hard pull
  • * {{quote-book, year=1991, author=Lindsley , title=The Prospect of Detachment, page=62, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=3smz5UYvQboC&pg=PA62
  • , passage=He's a yanker of braids, a tousler of bangs
  • (Scotland) A brazen lie
  • * {{quote-book, year=1822, title=The Three Perils of Man, author=James Hogg, page=330, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=yrkBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA330
  • , passage="Ay, billy, that is a yanker !" said Tam aside : " When ane is gaun to tell a lie, there's naething like telling a plumper at aince, and being done wi't}}

    Synonyms

    * puller

    See also

    * yankee English agent nouns