(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.
Youngster
Definition:
(n.) A young person; a youngling; a lad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
(2) The developmental challenges inherent in the stage of adolescence are particularly stressful for mildly retarded youngsters and contribute to a high incidence of behavioral disorders.
(3) The prevalence of the habit was higher: a) in men, both in the youngsters and their parents; b) in medical students than in those of the economic sciences; c) in parents with university education.
(4) But Hilton insists critics are wrong to see the group as ruthless youngsters who meet purely to further their own careers.
(5) Sigurdsson joined Reading as a youngster in 2005, and had loan spells at Crewe and Shrewsbury before breaking into the first team.
(6) Beta cell function, peripheral sensitivity to insulin and specific pancreatic autoimmunity were studied in 30 youngsters with cystic fibrosis (CF) accurately selected in order to fulfill the criteria for normal glucose tolerance.
(7) This paper describes a series of young patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility because they presented symptoms indicative of a psychotic disorder when, in fact, the youngsters were dealing with the strain of keeping a family secret hidden.
(8) There may be cases in which youngsters have travelled overseas perhaps out of curiosity or with an interest but upon arriving shall we say in Turkey, through which a lot of these people are staged, get cold feet and decide they don’t want to pursue that objective.
(9) Calais's youths: the unaccompanied minors left in political limbo Read more Dubs, who was saved from the Nazis and brought to London in 1939 as part of the Kindertransport programme, has led a parliamentary campaign to take in youngsters from camps near Calais and elsewhere in Europe who, he says, are hugely vulnerable to exploitation, sexual violence and disease.
(10) In youngsters of severely diabetic mothers, during glucose infusion, hyperinsulinemia is associated with hyperresponsiveness of the beta-cells and insulin resistance.
(11) The youngsters who identified with her when they saw her in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 can feel that she has yet to let them down, nearly 16 years later.
(12) The effectiveness of a time-out intervention for adolescent psychiatric patients, adjudicated (delinquent) youth, and behaviorally disordered youngsters was explored in this study.
(13) In a joint report , seven anti-tobacco organisations said PMI is trying to recruit a new generation of youngsters, many of whom risk becoming hooked on tobacco for life.
(14) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
(15) Up to 20% of the senior school pupils may truant in a 2-week period and teachers report these youngsters to be more aggressive and to show more neurotic symptoms then the regular school attenders.
(16) This finding provides strong evidence that a comprehensive family-oriented outreach program for youngsters with chronic physical disorders can have long-term mental health benefits.
(17) In 15 patients the airway obstruction was completely relieved and these youngsters were extubated without difficulty.
(18) The performance of institutionalized delinquent youngsters on paired associate learning tasks was investigated to determine whether level of aspiration (LOA) statements were associated with improved performance under varying feedback conditions.
(19) The authors report data from a clinical-epidemiological survey of 322 youngster (143 m and 179 f) aged 4-16 with primary headache aimed at assessing latent time between precursors and onset of headache.
(20) The various factors that influence puberty and menarche reflect the total environment in which the youngster develops.