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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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younger
,
younker
noun
,
sometimes as a term of address
a youngster, a child:
‘
And what has my wee younkers been doing today?
’
20-
.
etymology:
perhaps a development from English
youngster
; attested by
JS
and
BW