dunker

1. 1.

   an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it

   “he was a dunker--he couldn't eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in”

   Broadereater
2. 2.

   a basketball player who is able to make dunk shots

   Broaderbasketball player
3. 3.

   an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion)

   SynonymsDunkardTunker

   BroaderBaptist

   Part ofChurch of the Brethren

Other forms of dunker

plural

dunkers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dunker

What does dunker mean?

dunker means "an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dunker?

dunker has 2 syllables: dun-ker. The stress falls on "dun". In IPA it is /ˈdʌŋkɚ/.

What is another word for dunker?

Close synonyms include Dunkard, Tunker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dunker a common word?

dunker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.