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unclie

unclie is the alternative form of uncley.

Meaning of uncley

Adjective

uncley (comparative more uncley, superlative most uncley)

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

Forms of unclie

pluralunclies

Origin of unclie

From uncle + -ie (diminutive suffix).

Questions about unclie

What is unclie the alternative form of?
Unclie is the alternative form of uncley.

Words near unclie in the dictionary

  1. unclick
  2. unclickable
  3. unclicked
  4. unclicking
  5. unclicks
  6. unclie
  7. unclies
  8. unclimactic
  9. unclimaxed
  10. unclimb
  11. unclimbability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unclie (page history and authors); uncley (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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