auntie
or aunt·y
[an-tee, ahn-]
- Informal. aunt.
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Origin of auntie
aunty
[an-tee, ahn-]
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Examples from the Web for aunties
Contemporary Examples
These aunties see themselves as the “good girls,” and they assert their authority to keep the “bad girls” in check.
When the Killer Is a Mother: The Tragedy of Three Murdered Teens in CanadaAsra Q. Nomani
February 1, 2012
Girls often call these older women in their community their "aunties."
When the Killer Is a Mother: The Tragedy of Three Murdered Teens in CanadaAsra Q. Nomani
February 1, 2012
Gilliam said Armstrong often said she was "tired of being a burden on my aunties and uncles."
Historical Examples
They also said something about the darling coming to see his aunties.
The Yates PrideMary E. Wilkins Freeman
What was I to do after everything was settled and the aunties provided for?
The ChristianHall Caine
Whereupon the aunties took up their parable with, 'Well, well!
The ChristianHall Caine
He had fainted again, and it is extraordinary how helpless the aunties are in a case of illness.
The ChristianHall Caine
Uncle Charlie was there, and the aunties, sitting around, reading.
Emmy LouGeorge Madden Martin
auntie
aunty
- a familiar or diminutive word for aunt
- Australian informal, derogatory an older male homosexual
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Auntie
- British an informal name for the BBC
- Australian informal the Australian Broadcasting Association
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Aunty
- Australian an informal name for ABC 2 (def. 2)
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Word Origin and History for aunties
auntie
n.
1787, also aunty, familiar diminutive form of aunt. As a form of kindly address to an older woman to whom one is not related, originally in southern U.S., of elderly slave women.
The negro no longer submits with grace to be called "uncle" or "auntie" as of yore. ["Harper's Magazine," October 1883]
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