单词 | uncle |
释义 | uncle —uncleless, adj. —uncleship, n. /ung"keuhl/, n. 1. a brother of one's father or mother. 2. an aunt's husband. 3. a familiar title or term of address for any elderly man. 4. Slang. a pawnbroker. 5. (cap.) Informal. Uncle Sam. 6. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter U. 7. say or cry uncle, Informal. to concede defeat: They ganged up on him in the schoolyard and made him say uncle. [1250-1300; ME < AF uncle, OF oncle < L avunculus mother's brother, equiv. to av(us) mother's father + -unculus suffix extracted from dims. of n-stems (see HOMUNCULUS)] |
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