uncle *** , also: nuncle old use , also: unc informal , also: unk informal

And then get myself a little business, like my uncle.

He was on the floor all day, until my uncle got home from work.

I have to stay here and work for my uncle.

I did not know the uncle well, but he knew my husband.

Your father was always good to me, and his uncle.

If my uncle were to come to table after all?

Perhaps Uncle will let me stay here for a bit.

She kept trying to make me remember things about your uncle.

He and his uncle were both having a very good time.

Before he could think of anything to say, her uncle asked another question.

Some other man came to see her, though, an uncle or something.

Your uncle was working hard to get control over the body.

The uncle turned his head as if he wanted to find a certain individual.

We all know what the police think of my uncle.

More nearly a kind of uncle, although they were almost the same age.

She met her uncle and the others at the car.

He was our uncle, like a father and a friend.

She must have done the same as a child, with Uncle.

He must have found her uncle, or at least some news of him.

He said his uncle John wanted to take her out real bad.

He said his wife's uncle moved to Texas in 1958.

Used to come along and see his uncle about once a month.

But my uncle was not to be turned from his idea.

For the first two or three weeks we did not see my uncle often.

My uncle died not too long after I was in a position to know him.

And my nuncle at the same time as him.

And yet I would not be thee, nuncle.

"Oh, nuncle, it wouldn't do a poor lad much good to fall in there."

"Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?"

"You's look like the one as nicked my nuncle?

Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit.

For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Jim, As went to walk on the mountain.

A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet, And thee shall join thy nuncle!

Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.

Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters blessing!

Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman.

Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to lie.

"We don' wan' yer nuncle t' wonder where ye got new close."

"Even more cleverer than my nuncle Gabe, an' that's a fact!"

Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead, Afore I found his shinbone.

How now, nuncle!

Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing: here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.

O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than this rain water out o' door.

Night fell . . . Her nuncle, of course.

"Hast never seen thy nuncle before this?"

Mark it, nuncle.

"Quite a morning, Nuncle," he said.

Not knowing how Nuncle Bal felt about it, she pulled her smock back down and smiled at him.

"You can live with me an' Nuncle Gabe.

'Nor am I thy nuncle.