Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An uncle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Uncle.
- To cheat; deceive.
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- noun archaic or dialectal
uncle
Etymologies
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Examples
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I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'
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I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'
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Eunuch and saying to him, “This is the reward of goodness, O nuncle Tulip,” went in to Al – Rashid and said to him,
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Then she said to him, O nuncle, I am a maiden of the Arabs and a stranger and I have a sick brother; but I will go with thee to thy daughter on one condition, which is, that I may spend only the day with her and at night may return to my brother.
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So I drew near to him and saluted him, and he returned my salam by signs, but spoke not; and I said to him, “O nuncle mine, what causeth thee to sit here?”
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Upon this a little boy, one of those present, came forward and said, “Show it to me, nuncle mine!”
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Quoth Ajib, Even so, O nuncle mine; my heart burns for the loss of a beloved one who is non other than my father; and indeed I come forth, I and my grandfather, 459 to circle and search the world for him.
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Wherefore he knew that nuncle Mardas was their prisoner, and said, “By the life of Mahdiyah, I will not depart hence till I have delivered her father, that she may not be troubled!”
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'Why, I never frightened him; never put him beside his poor wits, like t'other poor nuncle.
Camilla 2008
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Anon Hasan chanced to glance aside and seeing from afar a something lofty said to the Magian, “What is that, O nuncle?”
ruzuzu commented on the word nuncle
Cf. cousin.
October 21, 2010