agony uncle

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agony uncle

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By analogy with earlier agony aunt, from still earlier agony column.

noun agony uncles

UK, informal, uncommon Synonym of advice columnist, particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column. The author had set himself up as a kind of literary agony uncle at the Murakami-san no Tokoro (Mr Murakami’s place) website: “After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” he said in January.
Similar: advice columnist, particularly an actually or assumed male writer of such a column

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@misc{agony_uncle_2026,
  title = {agony uncle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/agony%20uncle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}