Definition of Uncle

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Definition of Uncle

Uncle

An eldery man; -- used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation.

The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

A pawnbroker.

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Uncle Quotations

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
R. Lee Ermey

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
G. Gordon Liddy

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
Sarah Silverman

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
George Gobel

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall

My uncle always said that I could have been a rancher.
Robert Duvall

Uncle Translations

uncle in Danish is onkel
uncle in Dutch is oom
uncle in French is oncle
uncle in German is Onkel
uncle in Italian is zio
uncle in Norwegian is onkel
uncle in Portuguese is tio
uncle in Swedish is morbror, farbror, onkel

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