aunty

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Yea, I would love to hear from one of those aunty/uncles! But I don't know any offhand.

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the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

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noun

the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

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noun

the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle

Example sentences

Yea, I would love to hear from one of those aunty/uncles! But I don't know any offhand.

My aunty often makes it as an addition to the morning meal when I go back to her village and stay with her.

I went to see that with my older, cool as fuck aunty who went to university, shaved her head and had a CAR. All of that was cool as fuck to me. I felt so grown up going to see that!

Anyway your diaspora loves aunty and will send baby formula home in bulk for you, and dropship in reverse all those cool western toys. Xi needs to decide what he really wants.

It took me forever to realize our godparents weren't related to us even though we called them uncle and aunty. So your last statements only true if you restrict the 'we' you're talking about.

WhatsApp wasn't a thing other than pressure to connect with technically illiterate family aunty's and uncles in far away places that were told it was "texting". Meh

Driving tanks over anonymous students in the square is one thing, but provincial troops beating up aunty and uncle another. Central government usually caves in to provincial backlash.

Feels more like you're visiting your slightly quirky but absolutely delightful Russian aunty who has a penchant for antiquity.

Ok. This may be slightly off-topic, but I'm pretty serious when I suggest getting feedback and ideas from an Indian aunty/uncle who has done and helped arrange or take primary roles in weddings in their families. Here in India, for all significant events, there is always an aunt/uncle who knows everything, and everyone asks that person.

> I guess comparing it to something like Nigerian where all friends/family of an equal level are "brother"/"sister" or higher level "aunty"/"uncle", it seems weird to see English flattened so much. I don’t know what you mean by ‘Nigerian’, but that sounds to me like a Hawaiian kinship system, which is different to the Eskimo kinship system found in English.