auntly

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.

   • It was late, very late, when finally she climbed into the great bed after having received an auntly kiss.
   • The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.
   • He watched the auntly lady twist the ends of the diaper so that the whole assemblage seemed to wrap itself around his boy like magic.
2. 2

   In the manner of an aunt.

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