(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.
Runty
Definition:
(a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zinc was first recognized as essential for animals at the University of Illinois School of Agriculture in 1916, when it was found that zinc-deficient baby pigs were runty, developed dermatitis on their legs, and were sterile.
(2) In addition, some enhancer variants tended to establish a high-level persistent infection in the kidneys immediately following an acute infection; however, in all cases considerable histopathology was associated with these elevated long-term infections, and these mice were always runty.
(3) Avian reovirus (ARV) and avian nephritis virus (ANV) were individually isolated from runty 10-day-old broiler chicks.