释义 |
ˈuncleship [f. uncle n. + -ship.] The state or condition of being an uncle; the relationship of an uncle.
1742Richardson Pamela IV. 410 Must you, my Lord,..add to my Plagues, if I have any? Is this your Uncleship? 1826Lamb Elia ii. Wedding, I feel a sort of cousinhood, or uncleship, for the season. 1827Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 51 And how, Mr. Bedford, do you feel yourself under the honours of uncleship? 1881Athenæum 24 Dec. 844/1 She was a niece of that unlucky General..whose uncleship bribed Southey into omitting a sentence in his ‘Peninsular War’. |