Don't understand how UNCLE fits in the green category.
Must be an American thing. Every five-year-old kid on the playground learns that saying 'uncle' means 'Stop, I surrender'.
I have no idea why, but there you go.
Interesting, what happened if you were asking your uncle to stop?
As a kid we used the strange word
fainites. I never thought to look it up until now
fainites in British English
(ˈfeɪnaɪts IPA Pronunciation Guide ) or fains (feɪnz IPA Pronunciation Guide )
dialect
a cry for truce or respite from the rules of a game
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Word origin
C19: from fains I I decline, from feine feign, from Old French se feindre in the sense: back out, esp of battle