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Aunt Sally

name

Etymology

Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.

Definitions

  1. A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine…

    A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.

    • There were some swings, and a hooting-tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and Aunt Sallies.

  2. A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted.

    • He is helpless, an Aunt Sally, a figure from a cartoon, a missionary in cassock and topi waiting with clasped hands and upcast eyes while the savages jaw away in their own lingo preparatory to plunging him into their boiling cauldron.
    • IN FOUR years as India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh has come to resemble a bearded and turbaned Aunt Sally.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA