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plural uncles
The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. quotations examples
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.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, page 14
The male cousin of one’s parent. examples
(endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents. examples
(euphemistic) Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent. examples
(figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help. examples
(Britain, informal, dated) A pawnbroker. quotations examples
A chain hangs out of the pocket of his velvet waistcoat , by which we may conclude that he has a watch , though we have known many gents whose watches were at their uncle's (as the fashionable term for the pawnbroker goes)
December 1843, William Makepeace Thackeray, "Grant in Paris" (review), in Fraser's Magazine
(especially in the Southern US, parts of UK and South 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. examples
(Southern US, slang, archaic) An older African-American male. quotations
Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, — an immense talker.
1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
(Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, informal) Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener. examples
A cry used to indicate surrender. examples
third-person singular simple present uncles, present participle uncling, simple past and past participle uncled
(transitive, colloquial) To address somebody by the term uncle. examples
(intransitive, colloquial) To act like, or as, an uncle. quotations examples
Betelgeuse Five, where he both fathered and uncled Ford
1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy