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- noun Plural form of
half-uncle .
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Examples
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I have the legacy through family, my many half-uncles and aunts, cousins and my mama.
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“What did you think of all that talk about half-uncles marrying half-nieces, and creating children with hooves, tails, and horns?”
Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979
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“What did you think of all that talk about half-uncles marrying half-nieces, and creating children with hooves, tails, and horns?”
Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979
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"What did you think of all that talk, about half-uncles marrying half-nieces, and creating children with hooves, tails, and horns?"
Flowers In The Attic Andrews, V. C. 1979
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Beyond the open flower-walled grave was a mound where new grass grew; and here lay his great-uncle, old John Minafer, who had died the previous autumn; and beyond this were the graves of Georges grandfather and grandmother Minafer, and of his grandfather Minafers second wife, and her three sons, Georges half-uncles, who had been drowned together in a canoe accident when George was a childFanny was the last of the family.
Chapter 14 1918
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Beyond the open flower-walled grave was a mound where new grass grew; and here lay his great-uncle, old John Minafer, who had died the previous autumn; and beyond this were the graves of George's grandfather and grandmother Minafer, and of his grandfather Minafer's second wife, and her three sons, George's half-uncles, who had been drowned together in a canoe accident when George was a child -- Fanny was the last of the family.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown 1918
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The article states that the half-uncles attorney is Scott Bartton.
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