单词 | uncleship |
释义 | uncleshipn. The state or condition of being an uncle; the relationship of an uncle.In quot. 1741 with possessive adjective: a mock title of respect for an uncle. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > uncle > [noun] > condition of uncle uncleship1741 patruity1844 unclehood1846 avuncularity1937 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxi. 410 Must you, my Lord,..add to my Plagues, if I have any? Is this your Uncleship? 1775 Sophronia (2nd ed.) v. 41 And this..is the history of my uncleship. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 51 And how, Mr. Bedford, do you feel yourself under the honours of uncleship? 1881 Athenæum 24 Dec. 844/1 She was a niece of that unlucky General..whose uncleship bribed Southey into omitting a sentence in his ‘Peninsular War’. 1909 Overland Monthly Oct. 392/1 ‘Merely unprepared,’ replied Malachy, whose uncleship was as suave as his congenial respect for a good cigar. 2011 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 29 Jan. a43 I've got five aunties (no uncles, until December when Uncle Phil marries Auntie Laws and makes his uncleship official). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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