auntly
advEtymology From aunt + -ly.
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In the manner of an aunt.
auntly
adjEtymology From aunt + -ly.
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Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
- It was late, very late, when finally she climbed into the great bed after having received an auntly kiss.1928, Nella Larsen, “13”, in Quicksand, page 159:
- The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.2001, Mary Evans, Feminism:
1 more example
- He watched the auntly lady twist the ends of the diaper so that the whole assemblage seemed to wrap itself around his boy like magic.2012, Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage:
- Derived terms
- auntliness, un-auntly