uncley

English

Etymology 1

From uncle +‎ -y or uncle +‎ -ly.

Adjective

uncley (comparative more uncley, superlative most uncley)

1. Characteristic of an uncle; avuncular
   • 1946, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, volumes 13-14, page 42:

     Those events were memorable but they were memories only, misted and vague as the uncley sort of God one heard stories about in Sunday School.

   • 1969, Stanley Dehlet Mayer, Fantasy, volumes 6-7:

     I looked at him. There was nothing uncley about that look.

   • 2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence:

     In another way and this may be where I started believing this helpless character I'd imagined actually existed to the point that I wondered if he was uncley enough, if maybe I could get him and have something better than the flight plans that she wanted.

Etymology 2

From uncle +‎ -y (diminutive ending).

Alternative forms

• uncly, unclie

Noun

uncley (plural uncleys)

1. Familiar or endearing form of uncle
   • 2015, Murray W. Nabors, The Adventures of Terrence the Tabby Cat:

     Paint nursery, Write regularly in Baby's Book, let aunties and unclies know.

Translations

Diminutive of uncle

• Esperanto: oĉjo (eo)
• Italian: zietto (it) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ujko (sh) m (mother's brother), striko m (father's brother), striček (sh) m (regional, father's brother), tečo m (parent's sister's husband), teča (sh) m (parent's sister's husban), čiča (sh) m (regional, father's brother), čiko (sh) m (regional, father's brother), teček m (regional, parent's sister's husband)