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AUNT

1. The sister of one's father or mother; correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife. 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. 3. A bawd, or a prostitute. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a tube in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the tube by throwing short bludgeons at it. Origin: OF. Ante, F. Tante, L. Amita father's sister. Cf. Amma. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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