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  • noun colloquial, used by young children uncle.

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Examples

  • 'Impossible! why Jacob told me unky was working night and day at preparations for your keeping the wedding at Cleves.'

    Camilla 2008

  • N is so incredibly lucky to have his unky in his life - and he'll grow up knowing that too.

    blog: Our house 2008

  • Do you know he has got debts of his own, of one sort or another, that poor unky has never heard of, to the amount of upwards of a thousand pounds? '

    Camilla 2008

  • 'You carry me down-stairs, unky?' the little nephew suggested, with an appealing glance at his new uncle.

    The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

  • 'Impossible! why Jacob told me unky was working night and day at preparations for your keeping the wedding at Cleves.'

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • Do you know he has got debts of his own, of one sort or another, that poor unky has never heard of, to the amount of upwards of a thousand pounds? '

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • That is, until Tim Roth gets injected with something unky and turns into a giant CG abomination, and Norton's Bruce Banner gets tossed out of a chopper (a scene cribbed straight from the comics) and hits the ground as the Hulk.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • That is, until Tim Roth gets injected with something unky and turns into a giant CG abomination, and Norton's Bruce Banner gets tossed out of a chopper (a scene cribbed straight from the comics) and hits the ground as the Hulk.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • That is, until Tim Roth gets injected with something unky and turns into a giant CG abomination, and Norton's Bruce Banner gets tossed out of a chopper (a scene cribbed straight from the comics) and hits the ground as the Hulk.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • That is, until Tim Roth gets injected with something unky and turns into a giant CG abomination, and Norton's Bruce Banner gets tossed out of a chopper (a scene cribbed straight from the comics) and hits the ground as the Hulk.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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