unc

See also: UNC

English

Alternative forms

• unk

Etymology

Clipping of uncle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌŋk/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Noun

unc (plural uncs)

1. (colloquial) uncle
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.

   • 2024 March 11, Kyle Swenson, Amber Ferguson, “A TikToker raised $400K for an unhoused man. Then things got messy.”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     Yo, TikTok, we need to raise money for Unc.

Synonyms

• unkie
• unky

References

• “Unk”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• NUC, cun, nuc

Middle English

Pronoun

unc

1. Alternative form of unk

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /unk/, [uŋk]

Pronoun

unc

1. accusative/dative of wit: (to) us two
   • "The Wife's Lament"

     Ongunnon þæt þæs mannes māgas hyċġan þurh dierne ġeþōht þæt hīe tōdǣlden unc.

     The person's relatives began to think of a secret plan to separate us.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *unkwiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”).

Noun

unc m

1. snake
2. toad

Descendants

• German: Unke