Pawnbroker vs. Uncle

Pawnbrokernoun

A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.

Pawnbrokernoun

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

Pawnbrokernoun

a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security

Pawnbroker

A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, or simply the collateral.

Unclenoun

The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.

Unclenoun

(euphemistic) A companion to one's (usually unmarried) mother.

Unclenoun

(figuratively) A source of advice, encouragement, or help.

Unclenoun

A pawnbroker.

Unclenoun

An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

Unclenoun

An older male African-American person.

Uncleinterjection

A cry used to indicate surrender.

Uncleverb

To address somebody by the term uncle.

Uncleverb

To act like, or as, an uncle.

Unclenoun

The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; - the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

Unclenoun

A pawnbroker.

Unclenoun

An eldery man; - used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, "Uncle Remus."

Unclenoun

the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt

Unclenoun

a source of help and advice and encouragement;

Uncle

An uncle is a male relative who is a sibling of a parent or married to a sibling of a parent. Uncles who are related by birth are second-degree relatives.