uncleship

uncleship

(ˈʌŋkəlˌʃɪp)
n
literary the position or status of an uncle; the condition of being an uncle
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I've got five aunties (no uncles, until December when Uncle Phil marries Auntie Laws and makes his uncleship official) and two girl cousins (just the one boy cousin, and he lives in India).
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Lubbock described to his audience how the Hawaiian system ignored 'uncleships and auntships' and simply differentiated 'parent male' from 'parent female' (Lubbock, 1872: 10-11).
The origin of kinship in Oceania: Lewis Henry Morgan and Lorimer Fison
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