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Junker vs Punker - What's the difference?

junker | punker |

As nouns the difference between junker and punker

is that junker is while punker is punk (person, follower of the punk movement).

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.

    • punker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music, dated) A punk rocker: a performer or enthusiast of punk rock.
  • * 1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, "Burnin' With the 8 Ball", :
    • And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.
  • * 2006 , John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun (page 72)
    • She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker . She always had some punk group on her headset.
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