When Dan Rather announced he'll weigh anchor after 24 years as the face of CBS News, none of the stories about it described him as avuncular. Avuncular is the fifty-dollar word that means "uncle-like, ...
The Washington Post described Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on Saturday, as having a "bushy white beard and an easy smile" in its obituary of the Iranian leader this ...
Not long after Bill Fleischman playfully teased me for labeling Bobby Unser as “avuncular” in a story in the early 1990s about the Indianapolis 500, Fleischman decided to refer to himself over the ...
Don’t you hate it when your rich bachelor uncle is all, “Hey, you better pump out some kids, man.” And you’re all, “Whatever.” And he’s all, “Oh, really!” And you’re all, “Did I stutter?” And he’s all ...
'Materteral' and 'materterine' have occasionally been used, based on Latin 'matertera'. The OED calls them 'humorous', but 'materterine' at least has been used seriously by anthropologists.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results