What's the difference between aunt and auntie?

Aunt


Definition:

  • (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
  • (n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
  • (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The muscle fibers were hypotrophic and predominantly of type I. Biopsy specimens of the muscles of the mother and maternal aunt had increased numbers of centrally located nuclei.
  • (2) She comes from the "cursed" political dynasty in Pakistan : her grandfather, the former president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed in 1979, three years before Fatima was born; her father, the radical politician Murtaza Bhutto, was shot dead by police in 1996; and her aunt, the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed in a bombing in 2007.
  • (3) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (4) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
  • (5) His report, which has been obtained by The Observer, shows that Mubanga had asked for his sister, aunt and brother to testify in his defence.
  • (6) I'll try to visit Jeffrey when I can and if I have kids in the future I'll tell them the whole story, and I hope that I can introduce them to Jeffrey and their aunts and uncles.
  • (7) In the patient muscular biochemistry revealed a major reduction in NADH oxydase activity and in the aunt a diminished level of carnitin compatible with carnitin deficiency.
  • (8) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
  • (9) My father had died six months previously and on the day of my birth my great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, arrived unexpectedly at my mother's house.
  • (10) Their aunt Teema Kurdi, a hairdresser in Vancouver, heard the news from her brother Mohammad’s wife, Ghuson.
  • (11) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
  • (12) We report on 2 male propositi, their mothers, and a maternal aunt with a new skeletal dysplasia associated with a unique pattern of digital malformation, variable mild short stature, and mild bowleg with proximal overgrowth of the fibula.
  • (13) The novel, first published in 1911, features the escapades of a 15-year-old hero who impregnates three women, one of them his own aunt.
  • (14) Similar phenotypes were present in a maternal aunt and uncle.
  • (15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
  • (16) An uncle of the boy died at the age of 42, an aunt at the age of 16 years, both of atrophic kidneys.
  • (17) This paper evaluates the perceived genetic risk, the perceived burden, the impact on reproductive decision making, and the attitudes of aunts and uncles of a child with cystic fibrosis toward carrier identification, prenatal diagnosis, and pregnancy termination.
  • (18) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
  • (19) The long discussion between Elizabeth Bennet and her aunt is remarkably open: "But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him, as to consent to live with him on any other terms than marriage?"
  • (20) When I was younger I used to call them aunt and uncle, but they were actually sister and brothers."

Auntie


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aunty

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
  • (2) Her auntie took care of us; she swiftly and strongly guided us back to the van where she was taken to the medics.
  • (3) The track I’d play at my auntie’s wedding Thelma Houston: You Used To Hold Me So Tight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thelma’s got the funk!
  • (4) Chubby, bright-eyed babies were passed around and distant relatives traced out how they were connected (“I think the brother of your auntie’s husband was married to my cousin’s daughter”).
  • (5) It's alarming to see the Financial Times leader this week join in with gusto: "It's time to chop up Auntie," it began.
  • (6) My auntie, who is white, says: ‘They would not do it to their own.’” Yet Jay’s report cast doubt on the idea that perpetrators attacked only white girls.
  • (7) I wouldn’t see my friends again, or my auntie and cousins, who are my family.
  • (8) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
  • (9) I wouldn't have minded, but my Auntie Pat had written the exact same thing underneath it three hours earlier.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aunty Dolly Jerome calling for justice for the Bowraville child murder victims during a march on NSW Parliament House.
  • (11) With bands such as the Banshees and the Bunnymen opting for lavish orchestrations, Bush now seemed less like a throwback to pre-punk times and more like a sort of posh auntie to the goths.
  • (12) There are a Christian couple who Nazrin Wilkinson, the NHA local campaign manager, said "are lovely: they're like your auntie and uncle".
  • (13) I know someone who remembers a scene from his childhood when everybody went to his auntie’s house when he was about eight years old.
  • (14) You know this Auntie will miss you.” Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 Jorge-Reyes worked as a supervisor at the Gucci store in Orlando.
  • (15) If she does have any moments of weakness now, there’s always Auntie Sarah Millican to call upon.
  • (16) Then 16 more people, including dear Aunty, became ill and, when tested, were confirmed Ebola positive.
  • (17) Although it did pop up again off-Broadway, on ABC2, as rolling news of the prime minister’s demise took over Aunty’s main channel for the night.
  • (18) David Cameron's mother signs petition against cuts to children's services Read more But Mary Cameron’s protest – her sister, Cameron’s Auntie Clare has also publicly declared the cuts to be a “ great, great error ” – symbolises something much more significant: that there is now almost open revolt against local government cuts among Tory councils, and increasingly, Tory MPs, particularly in rural areas.
  • (19) She was coming from Nigeria to stay with an “auntie” – actually a family friend.
  • (20) From 1 October, the surviving spouse will receive the whole lot, and parents and long-lost aunties won’t see a penny.

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