uncle remus

1. 1.

   the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880

   Broaderfictional character

Questions about uncle remus

What does uncle remus mean?

uncle remus means "the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880".

Is uncle remus a common word?

uncle remus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.