uncley
English
Adjective
uncley (comparative more uncley, superlative most uncley)
- Characteristic of an uncle; avuncular
- 1946, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, volume 13-14, page 42:
- 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.
- 1969, Stanley Dehlet Mayer, Fantasy, volume 6-7:
- I looked at him. There was nothing uncley about that look.
- 2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence:
- 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.
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