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aunt

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The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

An old woman; and old gossip.

A bawd, or a prostitute.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. Jack Kerouac

There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it. Margaret Atwood

The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. Douglas Adams

What you've brought for me, take for your aunt. Persian Proverb

Vodka is the aunt of wine. Russian Proverb

Hunger is not your aunt. Russian Proverb

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