Junker vs Junked - What's the difference?
junker | junked |
A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
* 1919 , :
(junk)
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7
(slang) Genitalia.
* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)
(nautical) Salt beef.
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
As a noun junker
is a young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.As a verb junked is
past tense of junk.junker
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), a contraction of ; compare English young and herre; also younker.Noun
(en noun)- 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
* JunkerDerived terms
* junkerdom * junkerish * junkerismReferences
* *Etymology 2
junked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*junk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).Noun
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
- (Lowell)
