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^[1]:

     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.