Definition of "nuncle" []

• Chiefly British An uncle: "Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?” ( Shakespeare). (noun)

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• "I had rather be any kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'"
• "'Why, I never frightened him; never put him beside his poor wits, like t'other poor nuncle."
• "Quoth Ajib, Even so, O nuncle mine; my heart burns for the loss of a beloved one who is non other than my father; and indeed I come forth, I and my grandfather, 459 to circle and search the world for him."