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单词 avuncular
释义
avunculara‧vun‧cu‧lar /əˈvʌŋkjələ $ -ər/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINavuncular
Origin:
1800-1900 Latin avunculus; UNCLE
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Sam gave her an avuncular squeeze.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Harry Lucas was to all of us who knew him a mentor, a tutor and avuncular friend.
  • He had to admit that it was not unpleasant to be taken in hand by some one so positive and avuncular.
  • He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
  • Just keep an avuncular, supervisory eye on them.
  • Under other circumstances she might have found it avuncular but now it was oppressive.
  • We really only knew him through childhood over-the-counter dealings smiling, ever-patient, avuncular.
behaving in a kind and nice way to someone who is younger, rather like an uncle:  an avuncular pat on the shoulder
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