Those events were memorable but they were memories only, misted and vague as the uncley sort of God one heard stories about in Sunday School.1946, Cyril Connolly, Horizon, volumes 13-14, page 42:
I looked at him. There was nothing uncley about that look.1969, Stanley Dehlet Mayer, Fantasy, volumes 6-7:
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In another way and this may be where I started believing this helpless character I'd imagined actually existed to the point that I wondered if he was uncley enough, if maybe I could get him and have something better than the flight plans that she wanted.2015, Catherine Therese, The Weight of Silence:
uncley
noun
Etymology From uncle + -y (diminutive ending).
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Endearing, Familiar Familiar or endearing form of uncle
Paint nursery, Write regularly in Baby's Book, let aunties and unclies know.2015, Murray W. Nabors, The Adventures of Terrence the Tabby Cat: