What does auntie mean?
Auntie means (endearing) Diminutive of aunt..
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/ˈæn.ti/ · noun
(endearing) Diminutive of aunt..
In the same melodrama, Madame Rotschild, a supporting character plays a similar role by "auntying" all children as a rich and powerful woman who can solve most problems in children's own homes.
More and more children are being "auntied" by women in the community who feel it is their duty as mothers to care for parentless children.
She had had only one unmitigated success in bending the girl to her will over the many years she'd auntied her: She had peeled the dialect right olf Lina's tongue.
“I am the best auntie of any auntie that has ever auntied,” she'd say, and in doing so reshape herself into the image her community needed to see.
Use auntie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Auntie means (endearing) Diminutive of aunt..
Common synonyms include aunt, aunty.
Possible antonyms include uncle.
In the same melodrama, Madame Rotschild, a supporting character plays a similar role by "auntying" all children as a rich and powerful woman who can solve most problems in children's own homes.
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