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nunky|ˈnʌŋkɪ|
Also nunkie.
1. Familiar form of nuncle. Cf. nunc, nunk, nunks.
1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. I. 101, I only repeat what I have heard, that old nunky looks upon you as still belonging to him. 1815Zeluca III. 232 Nunky pays for all. 1840Hood Up Rhine 4 When the qualm is over,..Nunky, Nevy and Watch go on as usual. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. v. 102, I saw..how rich your dutiful old nunky had cut up. 1969‘A. Gilbert’ Missing from Home vi. 86 We don't even know she had an uncle... And if it was seven o'clock..she was running it pretty fine if she was going for a drive with Nunkie. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Nov. 1472/2 She was A. J. Balfour's favourite niece... ‘Nunky’ died in 1930.
2. slang. A pawnbroker. Cf. uncle n. 3.
1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 5 Apr. 13/5 If you happen to want a ten-dollar bill and trot round the corner to ‘nunky’; why, that's really not quite done, my dear fellow. 1937in Partridge Dict. Slang. |