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Uncle Sugar

name

Etymology

Blend of Uncle Sam + sugar daddy. Popularized by Mike Huckabee, though not original to him.

  1. inherited from *dadde✻
  2. formed as daddy — “dad + -y”
  3. compounded as sugar daddy — “sugar + daddy”
  4. compounded as uncle sugar — “Uncle Sam + sugar daddy”

Definitions

  1. A personification of the American welfare state.

    • “Uncle Sugar provides well for me. Because of Uncle Sugar I have a good education and the opportunity to retire when I'm thirty-five years old."
    • [An Obama campaign ad] depicted a woman named Julia who from cradle to grave was dependent on all things "government" and could live her life only with the ever-present and all-guiding hand of Uncle Sugar.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA