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[syn: aunt, auntie, aunty]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aunt \Aunt\, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister.
Cf. Amma.]
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to
nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
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Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of
endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
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2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a
pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying
to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aunt
n 1: the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
[syn: aunt, auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]