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Junker vs Junkier - What's the difference?

junker | junkier |

As a noun junker

is .

As an adjective junkier is

(junky).

junker

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), a contraction of ; compare English young and herre; also younker.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
  • * 1919 , :
    • 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

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beat-up automobile.

    • junkier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (junky)

    • junky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.

    • Noun

    (junkies)
  • (slang, pejorative)