agony uncle en · NOUN
Etymology
By analogy with earlier agony aunt, from still earlier agony column.
Meanings
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(UK, informal, uncommon) Synonym of advice columnist, particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column.
The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January.
2015 August 13, Alison Flood, “Haruki Murakami's agony uncle answers become eight-volume book”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| agony uncles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Synonyms
particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column · advice columnist