What's the difference between yonker and yorker?

Yonker


Definition:

  • (n.) A young fellow; a younker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This model, the Outreach Health Care Unit, is run by nurse practitioners in collaboration with family physicians and is centered at the site of social service activities for homeless families and single men in Yonkers, N.Y.
  • (2) Jean Halloran Director, Food Policy Initiatives Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports 101 Truman Ave Yonkers, NY 10703 Friends of the Earth also wrote a letter to the editor taking issue with some of my points.
  • (3) A public school for pre-kindergarten through second grade (ages 4 to 8 years) in Yonkers, New York, was studied; all of 422 students were included and finished the study.
  • (4) Endoscopic examinations were performed on 965 Standardbred racehorses competing at Yonkers Raceway between June 16 and Aug 3, 1988, to demonstrate an association between exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and poor racing performance.
  • (5) He was born in Yonkers, New York, to an Irish Catholic and Democratic family, but turned his back on that inheritance and chose to study at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
  • (6) The 51-year-old former call center manager had moved three years before from Yonkers, outside New York City, to live with her children in North Carolina, take advantage of a first-floor apartment and enjoy the relative peace and quiet.
  • (7) I grew up in a project [housing estate] in Yonkers, New York.
  • (8) In an attempt to clarify the role of geriatrics in family practice, the program at St. Joseph's Hospital and Nursing Home of Yonkers is outlined.
  • (9) Best, Michael Michael Hansen, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Consumers Union 101 Truman Ave. Yonkers, NY 10703 I will not respond to Hansen here except to say that the Seralini study has been widely discredited, even after its recent republication.

Yorker


Definition:

  • (n.) A tice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (2) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (4) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
  • (5) But in a New Yorker profile of you three years ago , you said that it was one of your favourite words.
  • (6) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (7) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (8) It is 17 years since Klein, then aged 30, published her first book, No Logo – a seductive rage against the branding of public life by globalising corporations – and made herself, in the words of the New Yorker , “ the most visible and influential figure on the American left ” almost overnight.
  • (9) A household-based telephone survey of 1800 16- to 20-year-old New Yorkers was conducted during November 1982, approximately one month before New York's minimum legal purchase age for alcoholic beverages was raised from 18 to 19.
  • (10) In summer months, this could subject New Yorkers to power shortages and the risk of black-outs because of the extra need for air conditioning.
  • (11) David Denby in the New Yorker called it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
  • (12) But then again, as the New Yorker is one of two men charged with breathing life back into the world's second most popular social network, it isn't unexpected.
  • (13) Filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability (CLEAR) project of Main Street Legal Services at CUNY Law School, the suit accuses the NYPD of religious profiling and suspicion-less surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers.
  • (14) The late author of The Catcher in the Rye, notoriously protective of his privacy, published nothing after the release of his story Hapworth 16, 1924 in the New Yorker, in 1965.
  • (15) In the first image , his brother looks like a cool New Yorker in a leather jacket, cigarette dangling from his mouth.
  • (16) Single New Yorkers have long chafed at the bad maths that means they're sometimes paying twice the rent their coupled-up friends pay; couples can pool their resources and get a nicer place.
  • (17) The New Yorker pronounced it "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery".
  • (18) Trump scored a powerful rhetorical point when he described watching the Twin Towers collapse – “We saw death and the smell of death was in the air for months,” he said – which left Cruz left awkwardly applauding Trump’s invocation of the terrorist attack and those who died as the New Yorker went on to describe Cruz’s comments as insulting.
  • (19) Other staff include Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at the New Yorker , who will oversee arts and culture.
  • (20) His Glass family argued their way through issues of religion and compromise in a succession of stories published in the New Yorker, including Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Franny; Zooey; and Seymour: An Introduction, while rumours of their author's experiments with Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian Science, acupunture and diet continued to spread.

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