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Definition of Dutch uncle
1. Noun. A counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly.
Definition of Dutch uncle
1. Noun. (alternative form of dutch uncle) ¹
2. Noun. One who reproves in a blunt, stern manner intended for the benefit of the recipient. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dutch Uncle
Literary usage of Dutch uncle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"351 Dutch uncle. To talk to any one like a Dutch uncle is to reprehend him, ...
1837 If you keep a cutting didoes, I must talk to you like a Dutch uncle. ..."
2. American Educational Monthly (1872)
"Dutch uncle" (p. 83) is most used in New England, not to mean one whose presence
is undesirable, but in the phrase "talk to him like a Dutch uncle, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"“To talk lilac a Dutch uncle.” — In some parts of America, when a person has
determined to give another a regular lecture, he will often be heard to say, ..."
4. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1865)
"DUTCH FEAST, where the host gets drunk before his guest. Dutch uncle, a personage
often introduced in conversation, but exceedingly difficult to describe; ..."
5. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"The phrase " A Dutch uncle " is no doubt of similar origin. Milverton . ..
began reasoning with the boys, talking to them like a Dutch uncle ( I wonder what ..."
6. English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases: Collected from the Most Authentic by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"A Dutch uncle. "I will talk to you like a Dutch uncle," is a well-known phrase.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. ..."
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