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Aunt
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.