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uncley en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From uncle + -y or uncle + -ly.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of an uncle; avuncular
   • I looked at him. There was nothing uncley about that look. 1969, Stanley Dehlet Mayer, Fantasy, volumes 6-7:
   • In another way and this may be where I started believing this helpless character I'd imagined actually existed to the point that I wondered if he was uncley enough, if maybe I could get him and have something better than the flight plans that she wanted. 2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence:
   • Those events were memorable but they were memories only, misted and vague as the uncley sort of God one heard stories about in Sunday School. 1946, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, volumes 13-14, page 42:

Forms

uncley en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From uncle + -y (diminutive ending).

Meanings

1. (endearing, familiar, form-of) Familiar or endearing form of uncle
   form of uncle
   • Paint nursery, Write regularly in Baby's Book, let aunties and unclies know. 2015, Murray W. Nabors, The Adventures of Terrence the Tabby Cat:

Forms

Translations (11)

sh striko (Diminutive of uncle) · pl wujcio (Diminutive of uncle) · sh ujko (Diminutive of uncle) · sh tečo (Diminutive of uncle) · sh teček (Diminutive of uncle) · sh čiča (Diminutive of uncle) · it zietto (Diminutive of uncle) · sh striček (Diminutive of uncle) · eo oĉjo (Diminutive of uncle) · sh čiko (Diminutive of uncle) · sh teča (Diminutive of uncle)