unc
See also: UNC
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editunc (plural uncs)
- (colloquial) uncle
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
- Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.
- 2024 March 11, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington Post[1]:
- Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- “Unk”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editPronoun
editunc
- Alternative form of unk
Old English
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editunc
- accusative/dative of wit: (to) us two
- "The Wife's Lament"
- Ongunnon þæt þæs mannes māgas hyċġan þurh dierne ġeþōht þæt hīe tōdǣlden unc.
- The person's relatives began to think of a secret plan to separate us.
- "The Wife's Lament"
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *unkwiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”).
Noun
editunc m
Descendants
edit- German: Unke
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English clippings
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʌŋk
- Rhymes:English/ʌŋk/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English colloquialisms
- English terms with quotations
- en:Male family members
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English pronouns
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English non-lemma forms
- Old English pronoun forms
- Old English terms with quotations
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
- Old High German masculine nouns