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agony uncles

agony uncles is the plural of agony uncle.

Meaning of agony uncle

Noun

agony uncle (plural agony uncles)

  1. (UK, informal, uncommon) Synonym of advice columnist, particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column.
    • The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January.2015 August 13, Alison Flood, “Haruki Murakami's agony uncle answers become eight-volume book”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    advice columnist, particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column

Questions about agony uncles

What is agony uncles the plural of?
Agony uncles is the plural of agony uncle.

Words near agony uncles in the dictionary

  1. agony box
  2. agony boxes
  3. agony column
  4. agony columns
  5. agony uncle
  6. agony uncles
  7. agony-pipe
  8. agony-pipes
  9. Agoo
  10. agood
  11. Agopian

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