Uncle Tomism

Variant of Uncle Tom

Uncle Tom definition

☆ Uncle Tom

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)

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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