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  auntie

  noun

  aunt.
• Auntie
  Auntie

  noun

  an informal name for the BBC

auntie

American  

[an-tee, ahn-] / ˈæn ti, ˈɑn- /

Or aunty

noun

• aunties
  plural

1. Informal. aunt.

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Auntie ¹ British  

/ ˈɑːntɪ /

noun

1. an informal name for the BBC

2. informal the Australian Broadcasting Association

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auntie ² British  

/ ˈɑːntɪ /

noun

1. a familiar or diminutive word for aunt

2. informal an older male homosexual

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• aunties
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of auntie

First recorded in 1785–95; aunt + -ie

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Example Sentences

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auntie Auntie aunties

"My grandmother and my auntie used to tell me that he's a cousin of the family. Cause you know, it's a very small island, Corsica."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

Hayley says she loves many things about having ADHD, such as being a "fun auntie"

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

"My auntie and uncle live in Dinnington, so this is where they would bring us for a day out," he says.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

They were all watching me, especially the auntie.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

For me, it’s the fresh-baked cinnamon sugar pretzel from Auntie Anne’s.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

However, the women kept in touch, and Gini became "Auntie Gini", even when Christopher's family travelled the world for their jobs.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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

You dig through your backpack for the beaded bag that holds your supplies—the one Auntie Maggie gave you when you were eleven—get sorted.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Obma, who has aunties and cousins living in Cardiff, now splits his time between Wales and Wisconsin, and named Pembrokeshire and the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, as some of his favourite spots.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

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

Lola includes all kinds of things: big coffee tins, mass quantities of toothpaste, shoes, clothes, and lipstick in pretty shades for all the aunties there.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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