(n.) A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
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.
Mother
Definition:
(n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
(n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
(n.) An old woman or matron.
(n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
(n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
(a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
(v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
(n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
(v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(2) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(3) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(4) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
(5) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(6) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(7) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(8) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
(9) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(10) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(11) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(12) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(13) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(14) There are no published reports of its detection in neonates born to affected mothers.
(15) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(16) Both mothers had been sniffing regularly throughout their pregnancies.
(17) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(20) This hormone alone or together with hPL could therefore take over the role of the lacking pituitary GH in the mother during the last half of pregnancy.