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nun⋅cle
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kəl
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–noun
Chiefly British
Dialect
.
uncle.
Origin:
1580–90;
from the phrase
mine uncle,
taken as
my nuncle;
cf.
newt
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nun·cle
(nŭng'kəl)
n.
Chiefly British
An uncle:
"Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?"
(Shakespeare).
[From the phrases
an uncle, mine uncle
.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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