yonker

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Obsolete spelling of younker. alt-of,obsolete

词形变化

yonkers plural

词源

From Adriaen van der Donck, the first lawyer in North America. Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker (etymologically, "young gentleman," derivation of old Dutch jong (young) and heer ("lord"); in effect, "esquire"), a word from which the name "Yonkers" is directly derived.
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