"unc" meaning in English

See unc in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: uncs [plural]
Etymology: Shortening. Head templates: {{en-noun}} unc (plural uncs)
  1. (colloquial) uncle Tags: colloquial Synonyms: unkie, unky
    Sense id: en-unc-en-noun-MQfqAwGi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Old High German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old High German entries with incorrect language header: 48 22 22 3 6

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for unc meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "uncs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unc (plural uncs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 22 22 3 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old High German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "uncle"
      ],
      "id": "en-unc-en-noun-MQfqAwGi",
      "links": [
        [
          "uncle",
          "uncle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) uncle"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "unkie"
        },
        {
          "word": "unky"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unc"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old High German entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old High German lemmas",
    "Old High German masculine nouns",
    "Old High German nouns",
    "Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "uncs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unc (plural uncs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991, Stephen King, Needful Things",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "uncle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "uncle",
          "uncle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) uncle"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "unkie"
    },
    {
      "word": "unky"
    }
  ],
  "word": "unc"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.