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agony auntie

agony auntie is the alternative form of agony aunt.

Meaning of agony aunt

Noun

agony aunt (plural agony aunts)

  1. (Ireland, UK, informal) Synonym of advice columnist, a writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical, especially an actually or assumed female writer of such a column.
    • You should write in to the agony aunt; she'll sort it out for you.
  2. (Ireland, UK, informal) Someone commonly consulted for advice about personal problems.
    • I'm sick of everyone coming to me with their problems—I never wanted to be an agony aunt!

Forms of agony auntie

pluralagony aunties

Questions about agony auntie

What is agony auntie the alternative form of?
Agony auntie is the alternative form of agony aunt.

Words near agony auntie in the dictionary

  1. agonoxenids
  2. agonoxenine
  3. agons
  4. agony
  5. agony aunt
  6. agony auntie
  7. agony aunties
  8. agony aunts
  9. agony aunty
  10. agony box
  11. agony boxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agony auntie (page history and authors); agony aunt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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