Dunker

American  

[duhng-ker] / ˈdʌŋ kər /

Also Dunkard

noun

1. a member of the Church of the Brethren, a denomination of Christians founded in Germany in 1708 and later reorganized in the United States, characterized by the practice of trine immersion, the celebration of a love feast accompanying the Lord's Supper, and opposition to the taking of oaths and to military service.

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Dunker British  

/ ˈdʌŋkəd, ˈdʌŋkə /

noun

1. a member of the German Baptist Brethren

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Etymology

Origin of Dunker

An Americanism first recorded in 1705–15; from Pennsylvania Dutch; dunk, -er ¹

Example Sentences

WSU punter Nick Haberer, a Melbourne, Australia, native who hadn’t played American football before arriving on the Palouse, joined fellow specialist Lucas Dunker Jr. in thanking Rolovich on Twitter.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

The Iowa Restaurant Association president Jessica Dunker criticized the plan in a voicemail and later phone call with Larson and told him in an email, “You can imagine my distress.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2020

“People want to just relax from the violence in the world and what’s on the news,” says Dunker.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2019

Hours of ferocious charges and countercharges around sites known simply as “the Cornfield,” “the Dunker Church,” and “Bloody Lane” took 12,000 Union and 10,000 Confederate casualties.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Like some of the other testing in the third and final phase of tests, the Dilbert Dunker could only be found at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

Related Words

• bun
• pastry