auntie
/ˈɐn.ti//ˈæn.ti/
auntie noun: term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman. Also the diminutive of aunt.
Noun
auntie (plural aunties)
- Term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
- Female domestic helper.
- An elderly gay man.
Verb
auntie (third-person singular simple present aunties, present participle auntying, simple past and past participle auntied)
- To be or behave like the aunt of.
- In the same melodrama, Madame Rotschild, a supporting character plays a similar role by "auntying" all children as a rich and powerful woman who can solve most problems in children's own homes.1994, Maria Guadalupe Serna-Perez, Entrepreneurship, Women's Roles, and the Domestic Cycle
- More and more children are being "auntied" by women in the community who feel it is their duty as mothers to care for parentless children.2003, Richard M. Lerner, Handbook of applied developmental science
Proper noun capitalized: Auntie
Auntie
- The BBC.
- Synonyms:
- the Beeb, Auntie Beeb
- The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission).
Also used as
auntie is also the diminutive of aunt.
auntie meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Odia and Indonesian
auntie in Urdu
- آنٹی
auntie in Bengali
- আন্টির প্রতি
auntie in Odia
- ଆନ୍ଟିଙ୍କୁ
auntie in Indonesian
- Diminutive of aunt
- tante
Examples of auntie in a sentence
- She had had only one unmitigated success in bending the girl to her will over the many years she'd auntied her: She had peeled the dialect right olf Lina's tongue.2011, Salvatore Scibona, The End, page 72:
- “I am the best auntie of any auntie that has ever auntied,” she'd say, and in doing so reshape herself into the image her community needed to see.2019, Keturah Kendrick, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone:
Synonyms of auntie
- the Beeb
- Auntie Beeb
- aunt
Forms of auntie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | aunties |
| alternative form | aunty |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | aunties |
| present participle | auntying |
| past participle | auntied |
| past | auntied |
Origin of auntie
From aunt + -ie.
Words formed from auntie
Phrases with auntie
Words that rhyme with auntie
Questions about auntie
- What does auntie mean?
- Auntie means term of familiarity or respect for a middle-aged or elderly woman.
- What is auntie in Urdu?
- Auntie in Urdu is آنٹی. See Auntie meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use auntie in a sentence?
- She had had only one unmitigated success in bending the girl to her will over the many years she'd auntied her: She had peeled the dialect right olf Lina's tongue.
- What part of speech is auntie?
- Auntie can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce auntie?
- Auntie is pronounced /ˈæn.ti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of auntie?
- The plural of auntie is aunties.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: auntie (page history and authors); Auntie (page history and authors); auntie (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); auntie (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); auntie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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