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Definition: Auntie |
AuntieNoun1. The sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "auntie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: AuntieSynonyms: aunt (n), aunty (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: uncle (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tell Auntie Em to let Old Yeller out, (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden) Don't sass your Auntie. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Oh oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera (Auntie Mame; writing credit: Betty Comden; Patrick Dennis) If only he had any idea what Mommy and Auntie Paige did today (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) Well, I - I think that it - it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em - and it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Who Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) Auntie Mame (1958) Torchy Raises the Auntie (1932) Oh Auntie! (1916) We Should Worry for Auntie (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Auntie, honestly now what do you think o' this?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Auntie, now that Al's flew the coop may we come home to roost?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | This auntie vaccinates us. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Philippines | Some of the U.S. franchises in the market today are: McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dunkin' Donuts, Mr. Donut, Magoo's, Greenwich, Angelino's, Domino's, Sbarro, California Pizza Kitchen, Numero Uno, Kenny Rogers, Auntie Ann's, Mary's Roasters, New Jersey Chicken, Shakey's, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, Dreyers, Blue Bunny, and Dairy Queen (food). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Auntie" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.27% of the time. "Auntie" is used about 666 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 60.27% | 402 | 13,930 |
| Noun (singular) | 39.73% | 265 | 18,112 |
| Total | 100.00% | 666 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "auntie": Auntie-kate-directed, Auntie-kate-liking. | |
Ending with "auntie": Great-great-auntie. | |
Containing "auntie": liking-auntie-kate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "auntie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Teto (Aunt). (various references) | |
Arabic | للتحبب, زنجية عجوزة, عمة (aunt, turban), خالة (aunt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Лелка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 阿姨 . (various references) | |
Czech | tetička, Tetièka. (various references) | |
French | Tantine. (various references) | |
German | Tantchen. (various references) | |
Greek | Θείτσα, θεία (aunt). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nénike (aunty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tante (aunt), bibi (aunt). (various references) | |
Manx | nauntee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auntieay.(various references) | |
Romanian | Tuşicã, Tanti (Aunt), Mãtuşicã. (various references) | |
Russian | тетушка, Тетушка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ujnica, tetkica, stinica. (various references) | |
Spanish | Tía (Aunt, Aunty, chippy, packet, tail). (various references) | |
Swedish | Tant (aunt, mama). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yengecik, Yengeciğim, Teyzecik, Teyzeciğim, Halacık, Halacığım. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Протиракета (Aunty), Тітонька (Aunty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thím (aunt), muấy dì, mợ (aunt), bác gái. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "auntie": aunties. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "auntie": vauntie. (additional references) | |
Words containing "auntie": flauntier, flauntiest, jauntier, jauntiest. (additional references) | |
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"Auntie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aluntur, Anstie, antia, antide, antie, Antii, anute, aunte, aunti, auntia, auntied, auntient, auntine, aunto, auntre, autier, Autif, cuntie, jauntie, Opuntia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "auntie" (pronounced a"ntē or ô"ntē) |
| 4 | a" n t ē | ante, anti, Canty, panty, scanty, Shanti, shanty, vigilante. |
| 3 | -n t ē | aplenty, appointee, bounty, certainty, cognoscenti, county, dainty, diamante, jaunty, flinty, inti, Monte, ninety, plenty, pointy, seventy, sovereignty, twenty, uncertainty, warranty. |
| 4 | ô" n t ē | jaunty. |
| 3 | -n t ē | ante, anti, aplenty, appointee, bounty, Canty, certainty, cognoscenti, county, dainty, diamante, flinty, inti, Monte, ninety, panty, plenty, pointy, scanty, seventy, Shanti, shanty, sovereignty, twenty, uncertainty, vigilante, warranty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: entia, tenia, tinea, unite, untie. | |
-2 letters: ante, anti, aunt, etna, etui, neat, nite, tain, tine, tuna, tune, unai, unit. | |
-3 letters: ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eau, eta, nae, net, nit, nut, tae, tan, tau, tea, ten, tie, tin, tui, tun, uta. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, an, at, en, et, in, it, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: alunite, antique, audient, aunties, petunia, quinate, ruinate, sinuate, taurine, tunicae, unakite, unitage, uranite, urinate, vauntie. | |
+2 letters: alunites, antinuke, antiqued, antiquer, antiques, anuretic, audients, auntlier, auntlike, autunite, braunite, cuneatic, equating, equation, equitant, incubate, incudate, indurate, insulate, intubate, inundate, jauntier, minutiae, neumatic, petunias, quainter, quantile, quantize, retinula, ruinated, ruinates, ruminate, sauteing, sinuated, sinuates, supinate, taurines, tegumina, tenurial, tunicate, uintaite, umangite, unakites, uncinate, unitages, uranites, urbanite, urinated, urinates. | |
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