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agony aunt

British  

noun

  1. Gender-netural form: advice columnist(sometimes capital) a person who writes the replies to readers' letters in an agony column

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One TikTok user, who goes by the name Ngo Keĩta, plays the role of a popular agony aunt, posting clips in Wolof, the language spoken most widely in Senegal.

From Seattle Times Mar. 19, 2024

Giles later retrained as a counsellor before becoming the resident agony aunt on BBC Wales's Eleri Sion radio show.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2023

Doyle Kennedy said she loved the way “Maria approaches everything — being an agony aunt, solving a murder — through food.”

From New York Times Sep. 5, 2022

In 1968, Dodie Wells, the agony aunt for Petticoat magazine explained:

From Salon Jun. 11, 2022

The author Cheryl Strayed is credited with pioneering this more ambitious incarnation of the agony aunt.

From The Guardian Oct. 22, 2020

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