• UNC
n. an uncle, esp. as a term of address …1946 Aust. sl.
• UNCAIRDLY
adv. without taking care; recklessly …1590 Sc. obs.
• UNCALM
vb. to agitate, to disturb …1655
• UNCANKERED
adj. unadulterated, unpolluted …1768-74
• UNCANNIE
adj. 1. dangerous, unreliable, insecure, treacherous, threatening …1748 Sc.
adj. 2. hard, violent, severe, heavy, esp. of a blow or fall …1759 Sc.
adj. 3. of persons: not safe to meddle with, as supposedly being in league with supernatural forces or having skill in magic, witchcraft or the like, malignant, baleful, mischievous …1773 Sc.
adj. 4. weird, mysterious, ominous, spooky, eerie, esp. of things …1819 Sc.
adj. 5. unskilful, not deft, clumsy, careless …1825 Sc.
adj. 6. of things: unlucky, inauspicious, tempting …1826 Sc.
adj. 7. awkward, not easy to manage …1891 Sc.
• UNCANNILY
adv. 1. unthinkingly, thoughtlessly …1825 Eng. dial.
adv. 2. in an uncomfortably strange manner; weirdly …1873
adv. 3. dangerously …1873 Eng. dial.
• UNCANNINESS
n. awkwardness; a state of general unsatisfactoriness …1900 Eng. dial.
• UNCANNY
adj. 1. unruly, mischievous, malicious …1596 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. giddy, careless, incautious, imprudent …1638 orig. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
adj. 3. unreliable, not to be trusted …1639 obs.
adj. 4. dangerous, unreliable, insecure, treacherous, threatening …1748 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 5. harsh, unkind, rude; severe, esp. used of a blow or fall …1773 Sc.. & Eng. dial.
adj. 6. awkward, unskilful; inconvenient …1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 7. suspected of evil doings …1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 8. of things: unlucky, inauspicious, tempting …1826 Sc.
adj. 9. partaking of a supernatural character; mysterious, weird, uncomfortably strange or unfamiliar …1843 orig. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• UNCAPABILITY
n. incapability …c1642 obs.
• UNCAPABLE
adj. incapable …1587 obs.
• UNCAPACITATE
vb. to incapacitate …1668 obs.
• UNCAPACITY
n. inability …1681 obs.
• UNCAPTIOUS
adj. meek, mild …1661
• UNCARED
adj. untended; uncared for …Bk1905 Ireland
• UNCAREDLY
adv. without taking care; recklessly …1590 Sc. obs.
• UNCARNIVOROUS
adj. vegetarian …1822
• UNCASE
vb. 1. to strip a person; to undress …1570-6
vb. 2. to skin or flay an animal or person …1575 obs.
vb. 3. to cast, to throw off …1581 obs.
vb. 4. to uncover, to lay bare, to expose to view or observation …1587
• UNCASSEN
adj. of clothes: not faded or worn …1930 Sc.
• UNCASTIGATE
adj. not censured …1539 obs.
• UNCASTIGATED
adj. not censured …1657
• UNCASUISTLY
adv. sincerely, straightforwardly …1649 obs.
• UNCATHOLIC
n. one who is not a Catholic …1865
• UNCAUPONATED
adj. unadulterated, unpolluted …a1752 obs.
• UNCAUTELOUS
adj. incautious, unwary …1628 obs.
• UNCAUTELOUSNESS
n. incautiousness …a1656 obs.
• UNCAUTIONED
adj. incautious …1671 obs.
• UNCAUTIOUS
adj. incautious …1644 obs.
• UNCAUTIOUSNESS
n. incautiousness …1680 obs.
• UNCE
n. a claw …1609 obs.
• UNCEASABLE
adj. incessant …1604 obs.
• UNCENSORIOUS
adj. not censuring …a1711
• UNCERT
adj. uncertain …1543 Sc. obs. rare
• UNCERTAINED
adj. uncertain, doubting …1470 obs.
• UNCERTAINNESS
n. uncertainty …1601 rare
• UNCESSABLE
adj. continuous, without stop …1596 obs.
• UNCESSANT
adj. incessant …1548 obs.
• UNCESSANTLY
adv. incessantly …c1460 obs.
• UNCESSANTNESS
n. incessantness …1627 obs.
• UNCH
n. a nuncheon, a light meal, a snack …1668 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• UNCHAGHE
n. a foolish or wanton woman …1534 obs.
• UNCHANCE
n. mischance, misfortune, a calamity …a1400-50 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• UNCHANCY
adj. 1. unlucky, ill-omened, ill-fated, unfortunate …1533 chiefly Sc.
adj. 2. mischievous; dangerous; risky; not safe to meddle with …1786 chiefly Sc.
adj. 3. inconvenient, ill-timed …1860 chiefly Sc.
• UNCHARGEANT
adj. not onerous or burdensome …c1380 obs.
• UNCHARGED
adj. 1. not called upon; unsummoned …1456 obs.
adj. 2. unassailed, unattacked …1607
• UNCHARY
adj. 1. incautious …1601
adj. 2. careless, heedless …1856
• UNCHASTE
adj. 1. lascivious …14C sl.
adj. 2. defiled; having been deflowered involuntarily …14C sl.
• UNCHASTIED
adj. unchastised …c1340 obs.
• UNCHASTITY
n. sexual impurity; lasciviousness …1382
• UNCHAWED
adj. not vexed, not disheartened, or disgruntled …1961 Sc.
• UNCHEERLY
adj. gloomy, depressing …1627 obs.
• UNCHEQUE
adj. without check or stoppage, continuous …1671 obs.
• UNCHID
adj. not rebuked or scolded …1860
• UNCHIDDEN
adj. not rebuked or scolded …1472
• UNCHIE
adv. slightly, somewhat …1931 Sc.
n. a little bit, a small amount …1931 Sc.
• UNCHILDLY
adj. unfilial, undutiful to parents …1597 obs.
• UNCHIVALRIC
adj. not courteously attentive to women, discourteous …1851
• UNCHIVALRY
n. lack of courteous attention to women …1858
• UNCHOLERIC
adj. meek, mild …1831
• UNCHRISOM
adj. unchristened …1831 rare
• UNCHRISTEN
adj. unchristian …c1000 obs.
• UNCHRISTENLIKE
adj. unchristianlike …1570 obs.
• UNCHRISTENLY
adv. unchristianly …1535 obs.
• UNCHUMMY
adj. unfriendly …1920s sl.
• UNCIAL
adj. 1. pert. to an inch or an ounce …1650
adj. 2. of letters or writing: having the large rounded forms (not joined to each other) characteristic of early Greek and Latin manuscripts; also, loosely, of large size, capital …1712
n. a capital letter …1775
• UNCIPHER
vb. to decipher …1598 obs.
• UNCIRCUMCIDED
adj. uncircumcised …1382 obs.
• UNCIRCUMCIS
adj. uncircumcised …c1250 obs.
• UNCIRCUMCISED
adj. not spiritually chastened or purified; irreligious; heathen …a1400
• UNCIRCUMLOCUTORY
adj. concise …1808
• UNCIRCUMSCRIBED
adj. infinite …1610
• UNCIRCUMSCRIPT
adj. infinite …c1374 obs.
• UNCIRCUMSCRIPTION
n. infiniteness …1852
• UNCIRCUMSPECT
adj. 1. of persons: not cautious, imprudent, unwary …1502
adj. 2. of actions, etc.: incautious …1563
• UNCIRCUMSPECTION
n. incautiousness …1598
• UNCIRCUMSPECTLY
adv. incautiously …1535
• UNCLAD
adj. naked …E15
• UNCLAP
vb. to open up …1621 obs.
• UNCLE
adj. outwardly subservient, in the context of Black/White relations …20C sl., orig. African-American
int. used to signify one’s surrender, usually in a physical confrontation …1910s US sl.
n. 1. a pawnbroker …1756 UK sl.
n. 2. a privy …L18 Brit. sl.
n. 3. a term of address or title for an elderly man unrelated to the speaker …1813 Amer. dial.
n. 4. used by a White person in reference to a Black man …1830 Amer. dial.
n. 5. the USA, esp. the US armed forces, or other federal/national authorities …M19 sl.
n. 6. a form of address to a Black male whose name one does not know or ignores …M19 sl.
n. 7. a magistrate …1895 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a general term of address to a man …20C sl.
n. 9. a pederast or a fellator who is interested in young boys …E20 US criminals’ sl.
n. 10. bed …1925 rhyming sl. (Uncle Ned)
n. 11. a man who has a mistress …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 12. a person who buys stolen goods from criminals …1950 US sl.
n. 13. a large ant …1960 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to cheat or swindle of something …a1592 obs.
vb. 2. to act in a passive or subservient fashion …1969 US sl.
• UNCLEAD
vb. to unclothe, to undress …a1300 obs.
• UNCLEAN
adj. 1. of air or smells: foul or impure …c1400 obs.
adj. 2. of land: foul with weeds, etc. …c1440 rare
• UNCLE AND AUNT
n. a plant …1992 UK rhyming sl.
• UNCLEANSABLE
adj. unpardonable …1483 obs.
• UNCLEAN SPIRIT
n. a wicked or evil spirit; a demon …c950
• UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT
adj. completely and dramatically ignorant about a particular subject …1988 US sl.
• UNCLE ARTHUR
n. 1. Guinness and the family who own it …20C Irish sl.
n. 2. arthritis personified …1992 Amer. dial.
• UNCLEAVE
vb. to become unfastened or detached …1596
• UNCLE BEN
n. 1. a pawnbroker …1920s US criminals’ sl.
n. 2. in bingo: the number 10 …1940s rhyming sl.
n. 3. a homosexual Black man who prefers White men; hence, a term of abuse …1970s US homosexual sl.
• UNCLE BENNY
n. a pawnbroker …1920s US criminals’ sl.
• UNCLE BERT
n. a shirt …1961 UK rhyming sl.
• UNCLE BERTIE
adj. angry, esp. if only temporarily; characteristically ill-tempered …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘shirty’
• UNCLE BILL
n. 1. a policeman …1930s sl.
n. 2. the police force in general; the law personified …1962 sl.
• UNCLE BLOODY
n. the bleed period of the menstrual cycle …2001 US sl.
• UNCLE BOB
n. 1. a police officer …1965 UK sl.
n. 2. a job …1990s rhyming sl.
n. 3. the penis …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘knob’
• UNCLE C
n. cocaine …2002 UK sl.
• UNCLE CHARLES
n. cocaine …2002 UK sl.
• UNCLE CHARLEY
n. an infantryman’s pack …20C army sl.
• UNCLE CHARLIE
n. 1. a representation of the dominant White culture in the US …1963 US sl.
n. 2, a White man; the boss …1970 African-American, often derogatory
n. 3. among truckers using citizen’s band radio: the Federal Communications Commission …1976 US sl.
n. 4. the Viet Cong …1985 US sl.
• UNCLE CHARLIE IS VISITING
phr. I am experiencing menstruation …2001 US sl.
• UNCLE CHARLIE’S DEAD
phr. used as a warning that one’s slip is showing …1967 Amer. sl.
• UNCLE DANIEL
n. in hot rodding: a deceptively normal-looking car that has been modified and enhanced for speed …1958 US sl.
• UNCLE DICK
adj. sick …1960 UK rhyming sl.
n. the penis …1960 UK rhyming sl. for ‘prick’
vb. to be sick or ill …1970s rhyming sl.
• UNCLE FRED
n. bread …1932 UK rhyming sl., generally childish usage
• UNCLE GEORDIE
n. a nickname for the devil …1896 Sc.
• UNCLE GEORGE
n. 1. King George III …1829
n. 2. a subservient Black person, fitting willingly into the stereotyped and inferior image refined by generations of White supremacy; a middle-class Black who wishes to distance himself from the ghetto; an affected or pretentious Black person …20C sl.
• UNCLE HO
n. Ho Chi Minh …1976 US sl.
• UNCLE-IN-LAW
n. the husband of one’s aunt …1561
• UNCLE JOE
n. Joseph Stalin …1943 UK sl.
• UNCLE JOHN
n. a penis …2000s sl.
• UNCLE JUNK
n. heroin …1985 US sl.
• UNCLE LESTER
n. a child molester …2002 UK rhyming sl.
• UNCLE MAC
n. 1. a smack …1992 UK rhyming sl.
n. 2. heroin …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘smack’
• UNCLE MELVIN
n. the act of reaching into another person’s belt, and either grabbing the underwear or the belt and lifting the person off the ground …1989 Amer. dial.
• UNCLEMENT
adj. of the weather: inclement …1598 obs.
• UNCLE MERV
vb. of a man: to ogle, to leer …1990s Aust. rhyming sl. for ‘perv’
• UNCLE MILTIE
n. Milton Berle …1968 US sl.
• UNCLE MILTY
n. Miltown™, a branded tranquillizer …1998 US sl.
• UNCLE NABS
n. the police …1970s African-American sl.
• UNCLE NED
n. 1. a Black South African …1900s Aust. sl.
n. 2. bread …20C Aust. sl.
n. 3. the head …1925 rhyming sl.
n. 4. a bed …1925 UK rhyming sl.
• UNCLE PAYTHER
n. a whinging complainer …20C Irish sl.
• UNCLE SAM
n. the government or people of the United States …1813
n. 2. a cut of lamb …20C rhyming sl.
• UNCLE SAMANTHA
n. the US government …1950s homosexual sl.
• UNCLE SAMMY
n. the USA and American culture, esp. the armed forces or federal agencies of the USA …19C sl.
• UNCLE SAM’S ACTION
n. introduction into one of the services (after being drafted) …1940s African-American sl.
• UNCLE SAM’S ICEBOX
n. Alaska …1888
• UNCLE SAM’S I.O.U.
n. money, a note …1940s sl.
• UNCLE SAM’S PETS
n. soldiers …1940s African-American college sl.
• UNCLE SAM’S SHEEP
n. illegally killed deer …1968 Amer. dial.
• UNCLE SAMUEL
n. the USA and American culture, esp. the armed forces or federal agencies of the USA …19C sl.
• UNCLE SAMWELL
n. the USA and American culture, esp. the armed forces or federal agencies of the USA …19C sl.
• UNCLES AND AUNTS
n. trousers …1928 US rhyming sl. for ‘pants’
• UNCLE SHAM
n. the USA and American culture, esp. the armed forces or federal agencies of the USA …1960s African-American sl., derogatory
• UNCLE SID
n. LSD …2003 UK sl.
• UNCLE SUGAR
n. World War II US armed forces usage – the United States government
• UNCLE THOMAS
n. 1. a subservient Black person, fitting willingly into the stereotyped and inferior image refined by generations of White supremacy; a middle-class Black who wishes to distance himself from the ghetto; an affected or pretentious Black person …20C sl.
n. 2. the penis …1920s US sl.
• UNCLE THREE BALLS
n. a pawnbroker …L19 sl.
• UNCLE TOM
adj. outwardly subservient, in the context of Black/White relations …20C sl., orig. African-American
n. 1. a Black person who curries favour from Whites through obsequious, fawning behaviour …1922 sl., orig. US
n. 2. a tattletale, a telltale; a person who befriends another, usually in the workplace, only to deceive them …1940s sl.
vb. of a Black person: to try to curry favour with White people by obsequious behaviour …1937 US sl.
• UNCLE TOMAHAWK
n. 1970s American Indian usage – a Native American who emulates or adopts the behaviour of the majority culture; a servile Native American
• UNCLE TOMISH
adj. outwardly subservient, in the context of Black/White relations …20C sl., orig. African-American
• UNCLE TOMISM
n. ‘Uncle Tom’ behaviour …1980s Amer. dial., derogatory
• UNCLE TOMMING
n. (behaving obsequiously toward White people …1944 Amer. dial., derogatory
• UNCLE TOMMYHAWK
n. an American Indian who is a traitor to militant Indian causes …M20 US sl., derogatory
• UNCLEW
vb. 1. to impoverish …1607
vb. 2. to unwind, to undo …1622
• UNCLE WHISKERS
n. a federal agent or agency …1933 US criminals’ sl.
• UNCLE WILF
n. the police …20C rhyming sl. for ‘filth’
• UNCLE WILLIE
adj. 1. silly …1932 UK rhyming sl.
adj. 2. chilly …1961 UK rhyming sl.
• UNCLIFY
vb. to make an uncle of …1799
• UNCLIT
vb. to unfasten …1587
• UNCLOAK
vb. to expose, to lay bare, to reveal …1659
• UNCLOSE
adj. 1. open, not closed …c1400 rare
adj. 2. unreserved, straightforward, frank …1605 rare
adj. 3. not intimate; distant …1659 rare
vb. 1. to make open, to cause to open …a1300
vb. 2. to disclose, to make known, to reveal …a1300
vb. 3. to hatch …1486 obs.
vb. 4. to unharness a horse …1615 obs.
• UNCLOURED
adj. not injured with blows or hard knocks …1719 Sc.
• UNCLOWRED
adj. unbeaten, unwounded …1721 Sc. obs.
• UNCLOYED
adj. unhurt, uninjured …1562 obs.
• UNCLUBBABLE
adj. not fit or inclined for society; unsociable …1764
• UNCLUE
vb. 1. to impoverish …1607
vb. 2. to unwind, to undo …1622
• UNCLY
adj. pert. to an uncle …1822 Sc.
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