Aunt \Aunt\, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister.
Cf. Amma.]
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to
nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of
endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.]
--Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a
pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying
to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |