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Auntie
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Collins
World English Dictionary
| auntie or aunty (ˈɑːntɪ) | |
| —n , pl -ies | |
| 1. | a familiar or diminutive word for aunt |
| 2. | informal, derogatory (Austral) an older male homosexual |
| aunty or aunty | |
| —n | |
| Auntie (ˈɑːntɪ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (Brit) an informal name for the BBC |
| 2. | informal (Austral) the Australian Broadcasting Association |
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Word Origin & History
auntie
1792, also aunty, familiar dim. form of aunt (q.v.). As a form of kindly address to an older woman to whom one is not related, attested from 1835, originally in southern U.S., of elderly slave women.
EXPAND"The negro no longer submits with grace to be called 'uncle' or 'auntie' as of yore." ["Harper's Magazine," October 1883]
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