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auntie

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Fromaunt +‎-ie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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auntie (pluralaunties)

  1. diminutive ofaunt
  2. (Asia, Africa)Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
  3. (Hong Kong) female domestic helper
  4. (LGBTQ, slang, US) An elderly gay man.[1]

Usage notes

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  • In some lects this is the most common spoken form foraunt.
  • In some regions, the spellingaunty is more common.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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Diminutive ofaunt

See also

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Verb

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auntie (third-person singular simple presentaunties,present participleauntying,simple past and past participleauntied)

  1. To be or behave like theaunt 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, page72:
      She had had only one unmitigated success in bending the girl to her will over the many years she'dauntied 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 everauntied,” she'd say, and in doing so reshape herself into the image her community needed to see.

References

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  1. ^A. F. Niemoeller, "A Glossary of Homosexual Slang,"Fact 2, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 1965): 25

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