agony aunt

English

Noun

agony aunt (plural agony aunts)

1. (informal, Britain) A writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical.

   You should write in to the agony aunt; she'll sort it out for you.

2. (informal, Britain) Someone commonly consulted for advice about personal problems.

   I'm sick of everyone coming to me with their problems - I never wanted to be an agony aunt!

Synonyms

• (writer of an advice column): advice columnist, agony auntie, agony aunty

Translations

writer of an advice column

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 答問專欄作者, 答问专栏作者 (dáwèn zhuānlán zuòzhě) (no equivalent exists, lit., "answering-questions-column writer")

• Danish: brevkasseredaktør c
• Finnish: ihmissuhdekolumnisti

• German: Kummerkastentante (de) f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: doctora corazón f
• Turkish: güzin abla

someone consulted for advice about personal problems

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垃圾桶 (zh) (lājītǒng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: leelian lepotuoli
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can