uncle
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- enPR: ŭngʹkəl, IPA: /ˈʌŋ.kəl/
- (America), IPA: /ˈʌŋ.kəl/, [ˈʌŋ.kəɫ], [ˈʌŋ.kɫ̩]
- (British), IPA: /ˈʌŋ.kəl/, IPA: [ˈɐŋ.kəɫ], [ˈɐŋ.kɫ̩]
uncle (plural uncles)
- The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
- (affectionate) The male cousin of one’s parent.
- (euphemistic) A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother.
- (figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
- (British, informal, dated) A pawnbroker.
- (especially in the Southern US, parts of UK and Asia) An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
- (Southern US, slang, archaic) An older male African-American person.
- Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, — an immense talker.
- (with regard to gender) aunt
- (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew
- (African-American) boy
- (India) aunty
- French: oncle, tonton (informal)
- German: Onkel, (archaic) Oheim
- Italian: zio
- Portuguese: tio
- Russian: дя́дя
- Spanish: tío
- Portuguese: tio
- Russian: дя́дя
- Russian: ростовщи́к
- Portuguese: tio
- Portuguese: tio
- Russian: дя́дя
- A cry used to indicate surrender.
uncle (uncles, present participle uncling; past and past participle uncled)
- (transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle.
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