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What (who) is -uncle - definition

FICTIONAL CHARACTER

Uncle tom; Uncle Tomism

-uncle

¦ suffix forming chiefly diminutive nouns: carbuncle.

Origin

from OFr. -oncle, -uncle, or from L. -unculus, a special form of -ulus.

The Bus Uncle

VIRAL VIDEO

Bus uncle; Bus Lawyer; Grumpy Man; Busuncle; Unclebus; 巴士阿叔; Bus Uncle; Uncle bus; Uncle Bus; Not resolved; Bus Judge; Chan Yuet Tung; Roger Chan; Hong Kong Bus Uncle; The bus uncle

The Bus Uncle is a Hong Kong Cantonese viral video depicting a verbal altercation between two men aboard a KMB bus in Hong Kong on 27 April 2006. The older and more belligerent of the two men was quickly nicknamed the "Bus Uncle", from the common Hong Kong practice of referring to older men as "Uncle" (阿叔).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle

Uncle

PARENT'S BROTHER OR PARENT'S BROTHER-IN-LAW

Granduncle; Great uncle; Grand-uncle; Oncle; Uncles; Great-uncle; Uncle-in-law; Grand uncle; Great-grand-uncle; Father's brother; Greatuncle; Great-uncles; Great-granduncle; Strýc; Half-uncle

·noun A Pawnbroker.

II. Uncle ·noun The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband;

- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

III. Uncle ·add. ·noun An eldery man;

- used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, ·esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, "Uncle Remus.".

Wikipedia

Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen by many readers as a ground-breaking humanistic portrayal of a slave, one who uses nonresistance and gives his life to protect others who have escaped from slavery. However, the character also came to be seen as inexplicably kind to white slaveholders, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations. This led to the use of Uncle Tom – sometimes shortened to just a Tom – as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person or house negro, particularly one aware of their own lower-class racial status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle Tom

Examples of use of -uncle

1. But Uncle Don and Uncle Dick can be awfully persuasive especially when Uncle Dick‘s packing heat.

2. "He ran after the men telling them uncle, uncle you dropped something," Daswal told Reuters.

3. "He ran after the men telling them ‘uncle, uncle you dropped something‘," Daswal said.

4. So Uncle Don and Uncle Dick came up with this idea of replacing you two.

5. "We‘re setting up Uncle Sam to be Uncle Sucker," he said.