auntie
See also: Auntie
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈæn.ti/, /ˈɑːn.ti/
- Rhymes: -ɑːnti, -ænti
- Homophones: ante, anti (in some accents)
Noun
auntie (plural aunties)
- diminutive of aunt
- Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
Usage notes
In some lects this is the most common spoken form for aunt.
Synonyms
Translations
Diminutive of aunt
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See also
Verb
auntie (third-person singular simple present aunties, present participle auntying, simple past and past participle auntied)
- To be or behave like the aunt of.
- 1994, Maria Guadalupe Serna-Perez, Entrepreneurship, Women's Roles, and the Domestic Cycle:
- In the same melodrama, Madame Rotschild, a supporting character plays a similar role by "auntying" all children as a rich and powerful woman who can solve most problems in children's own homes.
- 2003, Richard M. Lerner, Handbook of applied developmental science:
- More and more children are being "auntied" by women in the community who feel it is their duty as mothers to care for parentless children.
- 2011, Salvatore Scibona, The End, page 72:
- She had had only one unmitigated success in bending the girl to her will over the many years she'd auntied her: She had peeled the dialect right olf Lina's tongue.
- 2019, Keturah Kendrick, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone:
- “I am the best auntie of any auntie that has ever auntied,” she'd say, and in doing so reshape herself into the image her community needed to see.