auntie
noun
aunt.
auntie
American
[an-tee, ahn-]
/ ˈæn ti, ˈɑn- /
Or
aunty
noun
-
aunties
plural
Auntie
1
British
/ ˈɑːntɪ /
noun
-
an informal name for the BBC
-
informal the Australian Broadcasting Association
auntie
2
British
/ ˈɑːntɪ /
noun
-
a familiar or diminutive word for aunt
-
informal an older male homosexual
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Etymology
Origin of auntie
Example Sentences
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Your album “To Whom This May Concern” released in February, and it feels like a love letter from your favorite auntie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Kim sees her role as their auntie as the "most important job" she has.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
In the podcast, she serves as a loving alternative auntie figure and often addresses her audience with quirky pet names such as “my tender ravioli.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The victim's niece, Mai Pexton, had gone to the property and banged on the door, screaming for her "auntie".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
I see Khadijah auntie walking, resolute, cane in hand.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
She’s like an Auntie Mame, only her version of extravagance is peanut butter sundaes at Serendipity 3, a course at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and tickets to see Diana Rigg on Broadway in “Medea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Over the past decade, I’ve fallen victim to the online shopping epidemic, meaning I haven’t stepped foot inside a mall and enjoyed an Auntie Anne’s pretzel in years.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
“Auntie Dosie had to have three aspirins, but Auntie Hannah, who liked port, stood in the middle of the snowbound back yard, singing like a big-bosomed thrush.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Fearful that her mom will die, Cherrise’s teenage daughter, Raquel, convinces Joey to drive her to the hospital from the date farm where Raquel has been deposited into her Auntie Lolo’s care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Auntie Lou places a gold chair in front of me and then hands me Grace.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The aunties seemed genuinely delighted, bopping along to Bruno Mars as if this were the triumph of civic joy they had been waiting for since Election Day.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
Because of Mamdani’s interesting background, he brought the limousine liberals together with the aunties from Bangladesh.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
I have aunties, big brothers and big sisters that I can ask anything.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
Her khalas - which is the Urdu word for aunties - praised the NHS who worked "tirelessly" to save their niece's life.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
On Beechwood summer fifteen, the aunties filled in for Gran, making slumps and fussing around Granddad as if he hadn’t been living alone in Boston since Tipper died in October.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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