agony uncle

English

Noun

agony uncle (plural agony uncles)

  1. A male agony aunt.
    • 2015 August 13, Alison Flood, “Haruki Murakami's agony uncle answers become eight-volume book”, in The Guardian‎:
      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.
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