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☆ Uncle Tom

noun

Informal a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile: a term of contempt

Etymology: after the main character, an elderly black slave, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Uncle Tom Related Forms
Uncle Tom′·ism′ noun

Browse dictionary entries near Uncle Tom

  1. ‹ Uncle Sam
  2. ‹ uncle
  3. ‹ unclassified
  4. ‹ unclasp
  5. ‹ unclad
  6. ‹ uncivilized
  7. ‹ uncivil
  8. ‹ uncircumcision
  9. ‹ uncircumcised
  10. ‹ uncinate
  1. unclean ›
  2. unclean hands ›
  3. uncleanly ›
  4. unclench ›
  5. uncloak ›
  6. unclose ›
  7. unclothe ›
  8. unco ›
  9. uncoil ›
  10. uncollected funds ›