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nuncle
nuncle variant of uncle with transferred n (see N 3 b). Now dial. (Cf. nunky and nunc, nunk, nunks.)c 1589 Theses Martinianæ 2 To my nunckle Canturburie. 1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 132, I should be glad To haue myselfe called nunckle, and thou dad. 1605 Shakes. Lear i. iv. 170 Nuncl...
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Doug Lucie
Plays
John Clare's Mad Nuncle (Edinburgh, 1975)
Rough Trade (Oxford Playhouse, 1978)
We Love You (Roundhouse, 1978)
Oh Well (Oxford Playhouse, 1978)
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nunks
nunc, nunk, nunks familiar forms of nuncle. Cf nunky.1841 Comic Almanack Dec. 48 Come, nunks, one game at Blindman's-buff. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. ii. xvi. 311 His uncle or ‘Nunc’, as Sir Hugo had taught him to say. 1884 C. M. Yonge Armourer's Prentices I. 142 Should you know this nunks of your...
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Huashu
Nuncle Scattered and Nuncle Slippery were observing the mounds of the Earl of Darkness in the emptiness of K'unlun where the Yellow Emperor rested. asked Nuncle Scattered. "No," said Nuncle Slippery. "Why should I resent it? Our lives are just a borrowed pretext.
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nunky
nunky (ˈnʌŋkɪ) Also nunkie. 1. Familiar form of nuncle. Cf. nunc, nunk, nunks.1798 C. Smith Yng. Philos. I. 101, I only repeat what I have heard, that old nunky looks upon you as still belonging to him. 1815 Zeluca III. 232 Nunky pays for all. 1840 Hood Up Rhine 4 When the qualm is over,..Nunky, Nev...
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Eliza Wyatt
Chronic Competition (2000)
Nuncle (2001)
Techno-frantic Love (2002)
Gods & Goddesses (2004)
Flowers of Red (2005/2006)
Sleep Around Beauty a collaboration
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bifocal
biˈfocal, a. and n. orig. U.S. [bi-2.] A. adj. Having two foci; spec. designating spectacles with two segments of different focal lengths.1888 G. M. Gould in Med. & Surg. Reporter LIX. 545 (title) A new style of bi-focal lenses. 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 470 Ordinary bifocal glasses. 1938 E. Amble...
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Rebracketing
nuncle (dialectal form of uncle): Middle English mine uncle taken for my nuncle.
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buzzard
▪ I. buzzard, n.1 (ˈbʌzəd) Forms: 3 busard, 4–6 bosarde, 5 bosard, buserde, (busherde), busserd, 5–7 bussard, 6 busarde, bussarde, (bousarde, basert), buzarde, buzzarde, 6–7 buzard, 7 busard, 7– buzzard, (Sc. 6 bissart, 8 bizzard, 9 buzzart, dial. buzzert). [a. OF. busart = Pr. buzart; cf. the synon...
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Scout's Honor (1980 film)
Cast
Gary Coleman as Joey Seymour
Katherine Helmond as Pearl Bartlett
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Uncle Toby 'Nuncle' Bartlett
Pat O'Brien as Mr.
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uncle
▪ I. uncle, n. (ˈʌŋk(ə)l) Forms: α. 3–7 vncle (5 wncle), 4– uncle (5–6 oncle). β. 4, 6–8 unkle (vn-) 6–7 unckle (vn, 7 wn-). γ. 4 unkel, 5 vnkel, 6 unkell (vn-), 5–6 vn-, unkil(l, -kyll (5 hunckyl, oncyll, ownkyll, 6 onkill); 5 vn-, uncull, 6 unckall. See also nuncle. [a. AF. uncle, OF. uncle, oncle...
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Wilfrid Hyde-White
Tolan
Laverne and Shirley (TV episode, 1980) as Colonel Kalaback
Scout's Honor (TV movie, 1980) as Uncle Toby "Nuncle" Bartlett
Dick Turpin (1981) as
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goo
▪ I. goo slang (orig. U.S.). (guː) [Of obscure origin but possibly a shortening of burgoo.] A viscid or sticky substance. Also fig., sickly sentiment, gush.1903 C. H. Sewall Wireless Telegr. iv. 156 The ends of the wires..are smeared..with a minute quantity of a paste which the inventor [sc. L. DeFo...
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aunt
aunt (ɑːnt) Forms: 3–6 aunte, 5 awnt, 5– aunt; 3–7 (mi, thi) naunt(e, 9 dial. noant. [a. OF. aunte, ante, cogn. with Pr. amda, Lombard. amida:—L. amita. In Eng. a mistaken division of mine aunt, as my naunt, occurs in literature from 13th to 17th c., and still dialectally; cf. nuncle for uncle, and ...
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English articles
wandered back and forth between the indefinite article and words beginning with vowels over the history of the language, where for example what was once a nuncle
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