| 释义 |
auntie, aunty|ˈɑːntɪ|
[see -ie, -y4.]
a. A familiar, endearing form of aunt.
1792Burns Young Lassie, My auld Auntie Katie upon me taks pity. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxvi, Ask Aunty to come and cut it for me. 1863Little People (Mozley) iv. 37 A little voice called after her, ‘Auntie! you've not given me a real good kiss!’
b. In U.S.: ‘A familiar term, often used in accosting an elderly woman.’ Bartlett Dict. Amer. 1860. Applied esp. to a Negress. Also used in Britain, formerly only dial. (see E.D.D.), as a term of familiarity or respect applied to an elderly woman. Now increasingly used (a) in some social classes by a younger person of an unrelated older family friend, (b) transf. of an institution, etc., considered to be of conservative style or approach; spec. the B.B.C. Cf. aunt 1 b.
1835J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 241 Nor are planters indifferent to the comfort of their gray-headed slaves... They always address them in a mild and pleasant manner as ‘Uncle’ or ‘Aunty’. 1852Knickerbocker Oct. 326 So long as the race of good old colored ‘aunties’ do the cooking. 1865G. W. Nichols Story Gt. March 132 [To Negro woman] ‘What was it that struck you, aunty?’ 1883Harper's Mag. Oct. 728/2 The negro no longer submits with grace to be called ‘uncle’ and ‘auntie’ as of yore. 1931A. Huxley Music at Night 134 The Times finds it profitable to employ someone..to talk to us every morning about our dear old Culture-Aunties and Uncles. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 20/2 Auntie..like uncle, used by children for a friend of the house. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. vi. 439 ‘Rightie-o, auntie,’ said the driver. 1958J. Cannan And be a Villain i. 31, I saw about Uncle Edmund in auntie Times. 1959Guardian 14 Oct. 6/2 A part-time teacher..paid her children's ‘auntie’ {pstlg}2 a week to take them for afternoon walks. 1959J. Braine Vodi xxi. 231 Honestly, that woman's magazine stuff, just the sort of advice these damned aunties give. 1960Willmott & Young Family & Class in Lond. Suburb. i. 4 The East End is a different class altogether—people there call you Dad or Uncle or Auntie. 1962Listener 22 Mar. 529/1 The BBC needs to be braver and sometimes is. So let there be a faint hurrah as Auntie goes over the top. 1968Woman 27 Jan. 18/3, I had read..about Mollie Dundas's unit for autistics at this hospital. Mollie was in urgent need of voluntary ‘aunties’, substitute mother figures, to work with her in treating them. Ibid. 3 Feb. 15/2 At this clinic I had been an ‘auntie’..for some months. |