agony uncle
nounEtymology By analogy with earlier agony aunt, from still earlier agony column.
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UK, Informal, Uncommon Synonym of advice columnist, particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column.
- The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January.2015 August 13, Alison Flood, “Haruki Murakami's agony uncle answers become eight-volume book”, in The Guardian: