English Explanatory Dictionary

dunker

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who dunks.
  2. A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
  3. A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
  4. Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
  5. A kind of sonobuoy.
noun
  1. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.
  2. A member of the Church of the Brethren.

Word forms

dunker dunkers Dunkard Tunker

Etymology

From dunk + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix).

Derived words

Dunkerism
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