Phrase Hound found 36 phrases and 61 compound words that contain aunt. The most common are listed below. Open aunt in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 36
- paternal auntA sister of someone’s father.
- great-auntAn aunt of one's parent (i.e. a sister or sister-in-law of one's grandparent).
- aunt-in-lawThe wife of one's uncle or aunt (parent's sibling).
- Aunt SallyA traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a wooden figurine resembling an old woman.
- Aunt FloA personification of the menstrual period or menstruation.
- uncle or aunt
- agony auntSynonym of advice columnist, a writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical, especially an actually or assumed female writer of such a column.
- Aunt FlowAlternative form of Aunt Flo: A personification of the menstrual period or menstruation.
- Aunt EmmaSynonym of Miss Emma (“the drug morphine”).
- double auntA woman who is one's aunt in two ways, e.g. being a sister of one parent and the wife of a sibling of the other.
- grand-auntAlternative form of grandaunt: An aunt of one's parent (i.e. a sister or sister-in-law of one's grandparent).
- half auntA half sister of one's parent.
- second auntA female first cousin of one's mother or father.
- maternal auntAn aunt on one's mother's side of the family, including both
- cousin-auntFemale first cousin of one's parent; one's female first cousin once removed in a higher generation.
- aunt nellAn ear.
- co-auntof a woman, an aunt of one's niece or nephew who is not one's sister; a co-sister-in-law as common aunt to the children of two women's married siblings.
- Aunt MinnieA distinctive radiographic finding that is virtually pathognomonic.
- Aunt EdnaA middle-class playgoer with conventional tastes.
- wine auntA childfree, at least somewhat alcoholic older single woman.
- please excuse my dear Aunt SallyA mnemonic used to help people remember the order of operations, in the PEMDAS order.
- maternal half auntA half-sister of one's mother.
- Aunt Janesplural of Aunt Jane: A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.
- Aunt TabbyA woman who opposes the feminist movement or regards it as too radical.
- paternal half auntA half-sister of one's father.
Compound words 61
- auntlessWithout an aunt.
- auntlikeCharacteristic of or resembling an aunt.
- auntshipThe status of being an aunt.
- aunthoodThe quality or state of being an aunt.
- auntishCharacteristic of an aunt; auntlike
- aunticideThe killing of an aunt.
- auncleUsed especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent.
- auntdomThe state of being an aunt.
- auntnessthe state of being an aunt.
- stepauntThe sister of one's stepparent