Dictionary

auntly en · ADJ

Etymology

From aunt + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
   • It was late, very late, when finally she climbed into the great bed after having received an auntly kiss. 1928, Nella Larsen, “13”, in Quicksand, page 159:
   • 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. 2012, Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage:
   • The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling. 2001, Mary Evans, Feminism:

Forms

Deriveds

auntliness · un-auntly

auntly en · ADV

Etymology

From aunt + -ly.

Meanings

1. In the manner of an aunt.

Forms