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unclish en · ADJ

Etymology

From uncle + -ish.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to an uncle; avuncular.
   • ‘There are unclish men with monocles and women with skirts too tight and floppety hats and nothing to say.’ 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 122:
   • The supplementary equipment can be added as it is needed, not by the sporadic outbursts of unclish extravagance, but by well considered and slow degrees, and by means in which the child participates. 1913, E. Nesbit, Wings and the Child:
   • He put his naked arm around her naked shoulders, irretrievably, irritatingly unclish. 1971, D. G. Compton, Chronocules:

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