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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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