uncle : Idioms & Phrases

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dutch uncle

  • noun a counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly
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great-uncle

  • noun an uncle of your father or mother
    granduncle.
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My uncle

  • a pawnbroker. Slang
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uncle joe

  • noun United States general who commanded the Allied forces in China and Burma and India during World War II (1883-1946)
    Joseph Warren Stilwell; Stilwell; Vinegar Joe Stilwell.
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uncle remus

  • noun the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880
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Uncle Sam

  • noun a personification of the United States government
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  • a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Webster 1913

uncle tom

  • noun (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
    Tom.
  • noun a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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