auntly
English
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editauntly (comparative auntlier or more auntly, superlative auntliest or most auntly)
- Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
- 2001, Mary Evans, Feminism:
- The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.
- 2012, Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage:
- 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.
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editauntly (comparative auntlier or more auntly, superlative auntliest or most auntly)