auntn.

Brit.

/ɑːnt/,

/ant/, U.S.

/ænt/,

/ɑnt/

Forms: Middle English avynt, Middle English–1500s awnte, Middle English–1500s (1600s Scottish) awnt, Middle English–1600s ant, Middle English–1600s aunte, Middle English– aunt, 1500s avntte, 1500s awunt, 1500s ontt, 1500s–1600s ante; English regional (south-western) 1700s ount, 1800s aint, 1800s an', 1800s un; also Scottish pre-1700 aent, pre-1700 aint, pre-1700 antt, pre-1700 aynt; U.S. regional 1900s– ai' (southern), 1900s– aint (chiefly south Midland). Also with capital initial. See also naunt n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French aunte.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman aunte, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ante (French (now regional) ante ) sister of a person's father or mother, wife of a person's uncle (12th cent.; late 15th cent. or earlier as a form of address) < classical Latin amita father's sister, paternal aunt (see amadan n.), with elision of the vowel in the penultimate syllable. Compare naunt n.Compare Anglo-Norman amite (13th cent.; rare), Old Occitan amda (12th cent.; also anda (late 15th cent.)), Italian regional (Northern) ameda (early 13th cent.; also amida ). The usual words in Old English are faþu (also faþe ) (paternal aunt) and mōdrige (maternal aunt). In Middle English, compare also mome n.¹, which is subsequently superseded by aunt n.

(a) A sister of one's father or mother. Also: the wife or female partner of one's uncle. Cf. aunt-in-law n. at Compounds.In recent use also with reference to same-sex relationships: the wife or female partner of the sister of one's father or mother.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > aunt > [noun]

auntc1300

momea1325

naunta1400

auntie1672

tante1815

tante1845

tannie1958

tita1963

c1300 St. John Evangelist (Laud) l. 33 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 403 Riȝht it was to wardi hire ȝwane heo is Aunte was.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 12046 Com sir gui de mountfort, þat was..is aunte sone.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24675 His moder was þin aunt [a1400 Vesp. þi naunt, a1400 Coll. Phys. tin ant].

a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 227 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 287 (MED) Ȝour owne aunte, my lorde, is abbas þere.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xi. 105 Elezabeth, myn awnt dere.

1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 263^v Marius the elder had to wife Iulia the aunte of Caesar.

1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx xxii. 70 The Aunt dismissed but the Niece admitted, the one lacked but the other loued.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xxxix. 181 She repaired to the Monastery in Scotland, where Ebba her husbands Aunt was then Abbesse.

1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. v. 127 How do they spend the Sabbath at your Aunt's?

1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 28 Mar. 3/1 The Aunt..brought her Niece..before the Justice for beating her.

1834 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) III. 45 (note) What might have happened afterwards, is only known to those who can tell what would have come to pass if your aunt had been your uncle.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. v. 49 When he was first brought home a sickly child, consigned to his maternal aunt.

1881 ‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette xii His Aunt and Cousin are frantic with fear.

1907 K. D. Wiggin New Chron. Rebecca x. 308 Her aunt and her mother were stemming currants on the side porch.

1979 E. Kleiman Immortals (1980) 104 My aunt and uncle had bought a house on Manitoba Avenue.

2009 K. Roose Unlikely Disciple 43 It didn't go over well, especially with my lesbian aunts Tina and Teresa. Tina, my dad's older sister, is one of my favorite relatives... Teresa, her longtime partner, works as a massage practitioner.

2012 B. A. King in E. S. Bagley Desert Rose 284 She was my one and only aunt on my mother's side of the family.

(b) As a form of address, or used as a proper name. Also as a title, usually preceding a first name.

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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue x. sig. D^v In myne aunts eare she whispreth anon Roundly these words... Aunt, leat theim that be a colde blowe at the cole.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 11^v Wounded as hee was he cries helpe aunt Autonoë,now for Acteons blessed soule some mercy show too mee.

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. B2^v Deare Aunt, discend and gratulate his highnes.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. ii. 67 My maids Aunt Gillian of Brainford.

1680 R. Thoresby Diary 10 July (1830) I. 49 Writing letters about some urgent business; at Holbeck with Aunt; and other visits took up the rest of the day.

1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village iii. ix. 72 Really, aunt, I don't know what you mean.

1773 F. Gentleman Pantheonites ii. 36 Why aunt says as how that I must not spit the butterfly on a pin.

1835 C. Brontë Let. 12 Jan. (1992) I. 135 Papa, and Aunt both think a fortnight amply sufficient.

1891 W. Black Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! vi ‘Come, come, aunt,’ said he, ‘it isn't like you to niggle about nothing.’

1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty ix. 192 I heard your aunt Jude was real poorly.

1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon x. 103 Oh, Aunt,—were you in a Turkish Harem, really?

2003 M. Arnold Game with Dice (2004) vi. 254 I was sure that Aunt was not aware of the letter or the gift.

b. A woman who is regarded with respect or affection similar to that often accorded to an aunt (sense 1a) despite not being linked by this specific kinship; esp. a close family friend or (chiefly regional, as a term of respect or affection) an elderly woman. Also as a form of address or as a title preceding a first name. Cf. auntie n. 1b, uncle n. 1b.Frequently as a title. Cf. sense 1a(b).agony aunt: see agony n. Compounds. Universal Aunt: see universal adj., n., and adv. Compounds.

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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > as term of address

motherc1275

aunt1750

tante1815

tante1845

old dear1866

ouma1904

auntie1938

tannie1958

tita1963

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > person > female

benefactrix1615

benefactrice1710

benefactress1711

good fairy1716

fairy godmother1857

aunt1861

1750 R. Heath Nat. & Hist. Acct. Scilly 137 The President, Mrs. Sarah Jenkins, (commonly called Aunt Sarah).

1793 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1083/2 It is common in Cornwall to call all elderly persons Aunt or Uncle, prefixed to their names.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. vi. 155 A decent, elderly, somewhat severe-looking female, in a coif, who, by the name of Aunt Judith, did the honours of his house and table.

1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island 21 These universally useful persons receive among us the title of ‘aunt’ by a sort of general consent... They are nobody's aunts in particular, but aunts to human nature generally.

1928 H. Williamson Pathway xvii. 376 ‘I..thought I would look in, Aunt Connie.’ ‘Please don't call me Aunt Connie. I'm sorry to be so explicit.’

1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 144 Jane Austen is one of my dearest aunts.

1972 F. Mowat Whale for Killing (1988) ii. 15 Everyone above the age of fifty in an outport is known to everybody else as ‘Uncle’, or as ‘Aunt’.

1975 V. S. Naipaul Guerrillas ix. 103 Young men who at an early age had found themselves in the streets, without families, knowing only the older women of some houses as ‘aunts’.

1993 E. K. Sedgwick Tendencies 63 Many geocultural settings allow us to call ‘aunt’ or ‘uncle’ people older than ourselves who aren't related to us by either blood or marriage.

2015 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Life & Arts section) 6 I was placed with two ‘old maid’ sisters who instructed me to call them Aunt Amy and Aunt Tess.

c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Used generically of older black women by white people, esp. children, as a term of respect or affection. See also Aunt Jemima n. at Compounds. Cf. uncle n. 1c. Now rare (chiefly historical) and often considered offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > woman

Negrine1703

negress1734

momma1803

auntie1825

aunt1835

sister1879

black velvet1900

soul sister1959

maid1961

1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 110 ‘There they are, Aunt Glory.’ [Note] ‘Aunt’ and ‘Mauma’..are terms of respect commonly used by children to aged negroes.

1864 J. T. Trowbridge Cudjo's Cave xxxiv. 346 ‘Where is Aunt Deb?’.. ‘Here I is!’.. It was the voice of the old negress, who had hid herself in the chambers.

1904 W. N. Harben Georgians 106 A negro woman, Aunt Amanda,..passed in and out.

1942 Rotarian Dec. 45/2 ‘“Aunt” Henrietta, how old are you, and how many children you got?’ Humbly the old Negress replied, counting them off on her fingers.

2002 Sunday Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 28 Apr. 1 b They wanted to go to a professional..who would not mock them for being black, would not call them ‘Aunt So-and-So’ or call them by their first name.

2015 B. E. Paull & R. E. Hart Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood v. 103 During her Lincoln servitude, Mariah would have been thirty-two to forty-one years of age, yet she was called ‘Aunt Mariah’.

†2. An old or (perhaps) talkative woman. Obsolete.The precise interpretation of quot. ?a1425 is uncertain; the editor of the text cited suggests that the translator of the passage may have been working from a Latin text which here read amita or amitula rather than annicula, which would make this an instance of sense 1a.

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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]

old wifeeOE

old womanOE

trota1375

carlinec1375

cronec1386

vecke1390

monea1393

hagc1400

ribibec1405

aunt?a1425

crate14..

witchc1475

mauda1500

mackabroine1546

grandam?1550

grannam1565

old lady1575

beldam1580

lucky1629

granny1634

patriarchess1639

runta1652

harridan1699

grimalkin1798

mama1810

tante1815

wifie1823

maw1826

old dear1836

tante1845

Mother Bunch1847

douairière1869

dowager1870

veteraness1880

old trout1897

tab1909

bag1924

crow1925

ma1932

Skinny Liz1940

old bag1947

old boot1958

tannie1958

LOL1960

?a1425 Three Kings Cologne (Lamb. 491) (2000) 79 The same Symeon and Anna aunte [a1450 Royal þe olde womman; L. Anna annicula] of þat same Ihesu in presence of meny prestis and scrybes prophecied meny thinges, as the gospel seith.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 51 The wisest Aunt, telling the saddest tale.

3. slang. A female procurer or pimp, esp. the madam of a brothel or bawdy house; (also) a female prostitute. Also as a title preceding a first name. Cf. mother n.¹ 3d, uncle n. 2. Now somewhat rare.The precise meaning intended in quot. 1604 is unclear, although it does seem at least to be alluding to this sense.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

drivelling1570

twigger1573

punka1575

hackney1579

customer1583

commodity1591

streetwalker1591

traffic1591

trug1591

hackster1592

polecat1593

stale1593

mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

pagan1600

hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

community1606

miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

croshabell1607

prostitute1607

pug1607

venturer1607

nag1608

curtal1611

jumbler1611

land-frigate1611

walk-street1611

doll-common1612

turn-up1612

barber's chaira1616

commonera1616

public commonera1616

trader1615

venturea1616

stewpot1616

tweak1617

carry-knave1623

prostibule1623

fling-dusta1625

mar-taila1625

night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

meretrician1631

painted ladya1637

treadle1638

buttock1641

night-walker1648

mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

fallen woman1659

girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

quaedama1670

small girl1671

visor-mask1672

vizard-mask1672

bulker1673

marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

fling-stink1679

Whetstone whore1684

man-leech1687

nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

cocodette1867

cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress

butcheressa1475

stew1552

bawdress1569

brokeress1582

pander1585

abbess1594

aunt1604

panderess1604

hackney womanc1616

bronstrops1617

procuress1638

provincialc1640

fruit-woman1673

flesh-broker1699

broker-woman1723

commode1725

coupleress1864

hack1864

procureuse1930

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. B^v To call you one a mine aunts, sister, were as good as call you arrant whoore.

1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan i. ii. sig. B My worshipfull rotten rough-bellide Baud..by the Lord, Aunt, Restitution is Catholique.

1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iii. i, in Comedies & Trag. 108 Yes, and follow her like one of my Aunts of the Suburbs.

1702 L'Estrange's Visions of Quevedo Burlesqu'd vii. 263 Where are those Aunts, that for broad pieces, Will do as much too for their Nieces?

1849 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 29 Sept. 3 He said we will go and see our aunt first, won't we?..I had never been in such a house before..I knew what kind of a house it was by his saying ‘my aunt's’.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Aunt, a bawd, sometimes, though rarely, a prostitute.

1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer ix. 141 The proprietress of the brothel was standing beside the door... They called her Aunt Betty.

1927 Dial. Notes 5 437 Aunt, an old bawd.

1972 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 26 Nov. (Dixie Mag.) 45/1 Several members of the group recalled the many times Faulkner and Anderson spent an afternoon drinking and talking with ‘Aunt Rose’ Arnold, an ex-madam who owned an establishment on Chartres Street near Jackson Square.

†4. colloquial. Used by alumni of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge as a title for the other, ‘sister’ university. Cf. mother n.¹ 4e, sister n. Compounds 2a. Obsolete.

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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > university > specific university

Oxon.c1439

Oxford1455

Sorbonne1560

aunt1625

T.C.D.1831

other place1899

open university1902

U.C.L.a1912

University of the Air1922

U.C.L.A.1941

U.C.D.1955

OU1969

open1970

College of the Air1977

1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 480 Of this inough, and perhaps more then mine Aunt Cambridge will conne me thanke for.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 118 The Sons of our Aunt are loth to consent, that one who was taught in Cambridge, should teach in Oxford.

1701 S. Pepys Corr. 403 An humble present of mine, though a Cambridge man, to my dear Aunt, the University of Oxford.

1792 G. Wakefield Mem. 66 Rapin, by a strange blunder, makes him an Oxford man. Alas! my aunt has triumphed over my mother in many instances.

Phrases

colloquial (originally and chiefly British). my (giddy, sainted, etc.) aunt!: used as an exclamation expressing surprise, consternation, etc. Now somewhat dated.

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the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection]

goodness1623

agad1672

Godsokers1672

Oh dear!1694

law1763

lud1767

Dear me!1773

Lor1776

dear knows!1805

Great God!1819

Great Scott1852

Jehoshaphat1857

lors1860

Great Sun!1867

Great Caesar!1870

gracious me!1884

my (giddy, sainted, etc.) aunt!1886

snakes1891

lieber Gott1898

my gosh!1920

cor1931

1886 Oxf. Tatler 15 May 43/1 ‘My aunt!’ gasped Scrubbs, and dropped his pipe.

1888 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys 55 Prince Kraft a stable-boy! Oh, my Aunt!

1890 Bristol Mercury 11 Jan. (Weekly Suppl.) 8/4 ‘My sainted aunt!’ cried Percy Verance, ‘What Can be an answer to such awful rot?’

1903 T.P.'s Weekly 12 June 22/3 ‘Oh, my giddy Aunt!’ murmurs the disappointed shop-girl, sniffing.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast viii. 168 My holy aunt! The General disguised as Charlie Chaplin!

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point x. 163 Rampion..turned up his eyes. ‘Oh, my sacred aunt!’ he said.

1975 R. Dahl Danny Champion of World xi ‘Oh, my darling boy,’ he said softly. ‘Oh, my sainted aunt! I do believe you've got it. Yes, I do—I do—I do.’

2012 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 21 July 16 Oh my giddy aunt, here comes another shower!

Compounds

Aunt Edna n. a (supposedly) typical theatregoer of conservative taste; also occasionally in extended use with reference to other arts.Coined by the British playwright Terence Rattigan (1911–77).

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > conservative

Aunt Edna1953

1953 T. Rattigan Coll. Plays II. p. xii Let us invent a character, a nice, respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it... Let us call her Aunt Edna... Now Aunt Edna does not appreciate Kafka... She is, in short, a hopeless lowbrow.

1958 N. F. Simpson Resounding Tinkle in Observer Plays 241 The author..leans forward..to make simultaneous overtures of sumptuous impropriety to every Aunt Edna in the house.

1963 T. Rattigan in Daily Express 8 July 6/2 It is still assumed by some critics that I am still writing to lift the hearts of those Aunt Ednas of mine.

1990 P. Green Alexander to Actium 246 A group of women, as featherbrained and talkative as Theocritus's Syracusan matrons,..praising, like so many Aunt Ednas, the realism of the artwork on display.

2011 Observer (Nexis) 27 Feb. (Review section) 36 In the USSR of the 1950s, playwrights..had to conform to Stalin's notions of socialist realism; in 1950s UK, it was the West End, ‘Aunt Edna’ and the censor they had to please.

Aunt Emma n. Croquet (the type of) an unenterprising or excessively defensive player; play regarded as characteristic of such a player; frequently attributive.In quot. 1900 used as the name of the fictitious author of a chapter on such tactics.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > unenterprising play or player

Aunt Emma1931

1900 A. Lillie Croquet up to Date Contents p. v Cowardly tactics by Aunt Emma.]

1931 Handbk. Mod. Croquet (Croquet Assoc.) v. 55 It would seem as though the basis of over-caution, a backward-game, refusal to take risks, ‘Aunt Emma’, as this malady is sometimes derisively called, were a subconscious conviction that somehow or other, given sufficient patience and care, there is an absolutely safe way to the winning-peg.

1960 E. P. C. Cotter Tackle Croquet this Way 66 Whatever happens don't become an Aunt Emma player.

1963 Croquet Aug. 3/1 Aunt Emma is banished for ever.

1967 Croquet Aug.–Sept. 13/2 He played too much ‘Aunt Emma’.

2000 Canberra Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. a6 Frequently this is compounded by your opponent causing your balls to be well apart so that a roquet is difficult. This is—not at all affectionately—known as ‘Aunt Emma’ tactics.

aunt-in-law n. the wife or female partner of one's uncle.

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a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 7 Sept. in J. Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) i. xii. 46 Aunt & Aunt-in-Law, Niece and Niece-in-Law.

1678 A. Walker Ἕυρηκα 93 Those three excellent Ladies to whom she was an own Mother, though but an Aunt-in-law.

1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 15 The Fifth, an Ancient Gentlewoman, Aunt-in-Law to my Husband, a Widow, and the least able also of any of the rest, did, indeed, ask me to sit down.

1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage III. iv. 61 Ha'vn't [sic] I explained to you..that I am your son's aunt-in-law, Mrs. Dyke Robsey, of Portland Place?

1924 Legal Aid Rev. Oct. 5/1 Friction arose between the alien and her uncle's family, her aunt-in-law..becoming jealous and making things so uncomfortable for her that she was compelled to withdraw from her uncle's home.

2007 C. Riggs Shooting Star xiv. 111 What an injustice. His own uncle and goddamned aunt-in-law locking him out.

Aunt Jemima n. [ < Aunt Jemima (late 19th cent.), a brand name for a range of foodstuffs produced originally by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St Joseph, Missouri, bearing the logo of a black woman] U.S. colloquial (derogatory) a black woman, (in later use) spec. one considered submissive or servile towards white people; cf. Uncle Tom n.

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1853 Gleason's Pict. 5 Feb. 94/3 The [title of] uncle was a courtesy they gave..Just as the master makes of some good slave An Aunt Jemima, or an Uncle Jim.]

1897 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 30 Oct. 6/2 Of course, the more ludicrous the combinations of form and color, the better, and yellow kid niggers, Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas, Darktown Swells and many other curious and comical characters will be in evidence in the walk.

1944 Phylon 5 244 Significant among such names are these: George, James, Sam, Sambo, Uncle Tom, Marcus, Garvey, Jim, Rastus—all applied to male Negroes; Aunt Jemima , Brown Sugar, Dark Meat, Shady Lady, Mandy, Mammy, Raven Beauty—female Negroes; [etc.].

1961 Chicago Daily Defender 7 Aug. 9/3 A Negro high school principal in a mostly white school who backed the school board was attacked by Zuber as ‘The Aunt Jemima of Uncle Tom's cabin’.

1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Dec. 89/2 Grady..was already working part-time in white homes. One day a boy started ragging Grady for being an ‘Aunt Jemima’.

2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Aug. b17 She charged that the film depicted her as an ‘Aunt Jemima’ who sang gospel songs and spoke in a stereotyped dialect.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	aunt
释义	auntn. Brit. /ɑːnt/, /ant/, U.S. /ænt/, /ɑnt/ Forms: Middle English avynt, Middle English–1500s awnte, Middle English–1500s (1600s Scottish) awnt, Middle English–1600s ant, Middle English–1600s aunte, Middle English– aunt, 1500s avntte, 1500s awunt, 1500s ontt, 1500s–1600s ante; English regional (south-western) 1700s ount, 1800s aint, 1800s an', 1800s un; also Scottish pre-1700 aent, pre-1700 aint, pre-1700 antt, pre-1700 aynt; U.S. regional 1900s– ai' (southern), 1900s– aint (chiefly south Midland). Also with capital initial. See also naunt n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French aunte. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman aunte, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ante (French (now regional) ante ) sister of a person's father or mother, wife of a person's uncle (12th cent.; late 15th cent. or earlier as a form of address) < classical Latin amita father's sister, paternal aunt (see amadan n.), with elision of the vowel in the penultimate syllable. Compare naunt n.Compare Anglo-Norman amite (13th cent.; rare), Old Occitan amda (12th cent.; also anda (late 15th cent.)), Italian regional (Northern) ameda (early 13th cent.; also amida ). The usual words in Old English are faþu (also faþe ) (paternal aunt) and mōdrige (maternal aunt). In Middle English, compare also mome n.¹, which is subsequently superseded by aunt n. 1. a. (a) A sister of one's father or mother. Also: the wife or female partner of one's uncle. Cf. aunt-in-law n. at Compounds.In recent use also with reference to same-sex relationships: the wife or female partner of the sister of one's father or mother. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > aunt > [noun] auntc1300 momea1325 naunta1400 auntie1672 tante1815 tante1845 tannie1958 tita1963 c1300 St. John Evangelist (Laud) l. 33 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 403 Riȝht it was to wardi hire ȝwane heo is Aunte was. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 12046 Com sir gui de mountfort, þat was..is aunte sone. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 24675 His moder was þin aunt [a1400 Vesp. þi naunt, a1400 Coll. Phys. tin ant]. a1450 St. Etheldreda (Faust.) l. 227 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 287 (MED) Ȝour owne aunte, my lorde, is abbas þere. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xi. 105 Elezabeth, myn awnt dere. 1542 N. Udall in tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 263^v Marius the elder had to wife Iulia the aunte of Caesar. 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx xxii. 70 The Aunt dismissed but the Niece admitted, the one lacked but the other loued. 1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xxxix. 181 She repaired to the Monastery in Scotland, where Ebba her husbands Aunt was then Abbesse. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. v. 127 How do they spend the Sabbath at your Aunt's? 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 28 Mar. 3/1 The Aunt..brought her Niece..before the Justice for beating her. 1834 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) III. 45 (note) What might have happened afterwards, is only known to those who can tell what would have come to pass if your aunt had been your uncle. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. v. 49 When he was first brought home a sickly child, consigned to his maternal aunt. 1881 ‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette xii His Aunt and Cousin are frantic with fear. 1907 K. D. Wiggin New Chron. Rebecca x. 308 Her aunt and her mother were stemming currants on the side porch. 1979 E. Kleiman Immortals (1980) 104 My aunt and uncle had bought a house on Manitoba Avenue. 2009 K. Roose Unlikely Disciple 43 It didn't go over well, especially with my lesbian aunts Tina and Teresa. Tina, my dad's older sister, is one of my favorite relatives... Teresa, her longtime partner, works as a massage practitioner. 2012 B. A. King in E. S. Bagley Desert Rose 284 She was my one and only aunt on my mother's side of the family. (b) As a form of address, or used as a proper name. Also as a title, usually preceding a first name. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue x. sig. D^v In myne aunts eare she whispreth anon Roundly these words... Aunt, leat theim that be a colde blowe at the cole. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 11^v Wounded as hee was he cries helpe aunt Autonoë,now for Acteons blessed soule some mercy show too mee. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. B2^v Deare Aunt, discend and gratulate his highnes. View more context for this quotation 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. ii. 67 My maids Aunt Gillian of Brainford. 1680 R. Thoresby Diary 10 July (1830) I. 49 Writing letters about some urgent business; at Holbeck with Aunt; and other visits took up the rest of the day. 1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village iii. ix. 72 Really, aunt, I don't know what you mean. 1773 F. Gentleman Pantheonites ii. 36 Why aunt says as how that I must not spit the butterfly on a pin. 1835 C. Brontë Let. 12 Jan. (1992) I. 135 Papa, and Aunt both think a fortnight amply sufficient. 1891 W. Black Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! vi ‘Come, come, aunt,’ said he, ‘it isn't like you to niggle about nothing.’ 1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty ix. 192 I heard your aunt Jude was real poorly. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon x. 103 Oh, Aunt,—were you in a Turkish Harem, really? 2003 M. Arnold Game with Dice (2004) vi. 254 I was sure that Aunt was not aware of the letter or the gift. b. A woman who is regarded with respect or affection similar to that often accorded to an aunt (sense 1a) despite not being linked by this specific kinship; esp. a close family friend or (chiefly regional, as a term of respect or affection) an elderly woman. Also as a form of address or as a title preceding a first name. Cf. auntie n. 1b, uncle n. 1b.Frequently as a title. Cf. sense 1a(b).agony aunt: see agony n. Compounds. Universal Aunt: see universal adj., n., and adv. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > as term of address motherc1275 aunt1750 tante1815 tante1845 old dear1866 ouma1904 auntie1938 tannie1958 tita1963 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > person > female benefactrix1615 benefactrice1710 benefactress1711 good fairy1716 fairy godmother1857 aunt1861 1750 R. Heath Nat. & Hist. Acct. Scilly 137 The President, Mrs. Sarah Jenkins, (commonly called Aunt Sarah). 1793 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1083/2 It is common in Cornwall to call all elderly persons Aunt or Uncle, prefixed to their names. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. vi. 155 A decent, elderly, somewhat severe-looking female, in a coif, who, by the name of Aunt Judith, did the honours of his house and table. 1861 H. B. Stowe Pearl of Orr's Island 21 These universally useful persons receive among us the title of ‘aunt’ by a sort of general consent... They are nobody's aunts in particular, but aunts to human nature generally. 1928 H. Williamson Pathway xvii. 376 ‘I..thought I would look in, Aunt Connie.’ ‘Please don't call me Aunt Connie. I'm sorry to be so explicit.’ 1944 H. G. Wells '42 to '44 144 Jane Austen is one of my dearest aunts. 1972 F. Mowat Whale for Killing (1988) ii. 15 Everyone above the age of fifty in an outport is known to everybody else as ‘Uncle’, or as ‘Aunt’. 1975 V. S. Naipaul Guerrillas ix. 103 Young men who at an early age had found themselves in the streets, without families, knowing only the older women of some houses as ‘aunts’. 1993 E. K. Sedgwick Tendencies 63 Many geocultural settings allow us to call ‘aunt’ or ‘uncle’ people older than ourselves who aren't related to us by either blood or marriage. 2015 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Life & Arts section) 6 I was placed with two ‘old maid’ sisters who instructed me to call them Aunt Amy and Aunt Tess. c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Used generically of older black women by white people, esp. children, as a term of respect or affection. See also Aunt Jemima n. at Compounds. Cf. uncle n. 1c. Now rare (chiefly historical) and often considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > woman Negrine1703 negress1734 momma1803 auntie1825 aunt1835 sister1879 black velvet1900 soul sister1959 maid1961 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 110 ‘There they are, Aunt Glory.’ [Note] ‘Aunt’ and ‘Mauma’..are terms of respect commonly used by children to aged negroes. 1864 J. T. Trowbridge Cudjo's Cave xxxiv. 346 ‘Where is Aunt Deb?’.. ‘Here I is!’.. It was the voice of the old negress, who had hid herself in the chambers. 1904 W. N. Harben Georgians 106 A negro woman, Aunt Amanda,..passed in and out. 1942 Rotarian Dec. 45/2 ‘“Aunt” Henrietta, how old are you, and how many children you got?’ Humbly the old Negress replied, counting them off on her fingers. 2002 Sunday Star-News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 28 Apr. 1 b They wanted to go to a professional..who would not mock them for being black, would not call them ‘Aunt So-and-So’ or call them by their first name. 2015 B. E. Paull & R. E. Hart Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood v. 103 During her Lincoln servitude, Mariah would have been thirty-two to forty-one years of age, yet she was called ‘Aunt Mariah’. †2. An old or (perhaps) talkative woman. Obsolete.The precise interpretation of quot. ?a1425 is uncertain; the editor of the text cited suggests that the translator of the passage may have been working from a Latin text which here read amita or amitula rather than annicula, which would make this an instance of sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] old wifeeOE old womanOE trota1375 carlinec1375 cronec1386 vecke1390 monea1393 hagc1400 ribibec1405 aunt?a1425 crate14.. witchc1475 mauda1500 mackabroine1546 grandam?1550 grannam1565 old lady1575 beldam1580 lucky1629 granny1634 patriarchess1639 runta1652 harridan1699 grimalkin1798 mama1810 tante1815 wifie1823 maw1826 old dear1836 tante1845 Mother Bunch1847 douairière1869 dowager1870 veteraness1880 old trout1897 tab1909 bag1924 crow1925 ma1932 Skinny Liz1940 old bag1947 old boot1958 tannie1958 LOL1960 ?a1425 Three Kings Cologne (Lamb. 491) (2000) 79 The same Symeon and Anna aunte [a1450 Royal þe olde womman; L. Anna annicula] of þat same Ihesu in presence of meny prestis and scrybes prophecied meny thinges, as the gospel seith. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 51 The wisest Aunt, telling the saddest tale. View more context for this quotation 3. slang. A female procurer or pimp, esp. the madam of a brothel or bawdy house; (also) a female prostitute. Also as a title preceding a first name. Cf. mother n.¹ 3d, uncle n. 2. Now somewhat rare.The precise meaning intended in quot. 1604 is unclear, although it does seem at least to be alluding to this sense. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress butcheressa1475 stew1552 bawdress1569 brokeress1582 pander1585 abbess1594 aunt1604 panderess1604 hackney womanc1616 bronstrops1617 procuress1638 provincialc1640 fruit-woman1673 flesh-broker1699 broker-woman1723 commode1725 coupleress1864 hack1864 procureuse1930 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. B^v To call you one a mine aunts, sister, were as good as call you arrant whoore. 1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan i. ii. sig. B My worshipfull rotten rough-bellide Baud..by the Lord, Aunt, Restitution is Catholique. 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iii. i, in Comedies & Trag. 108 Yes, and follow her like one of my Aunts of the Suburbs. 1702 L'Estrange's Visions of Quevedo Burlesqu'd vii. 263 Where are those Aunts, that for broad pieces, Will do as much too for their Nieces? 1849 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 29 Sept. 3 He said we will go and see our aunt first, won't we?..I had never been in such a house before..I knew what kind of a house it was by his saying ‘my aunt's’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Aunt, a bawd, sometimes, though rarely, a prostitute. 1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer ix. 141 The proprietress of the brothel was standing beside the door... They called her Aunt Betty. 1927 Dial. Notes 5 437 Aunt, an old bawd. 1972 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 26 Nov. (Dixie Mag.) 45/1 Several members of the group recalled the many times Faulkner and Anderson spent an afternoon drinking and talking with ‘Aunt Rose’ Arnold, an ex-madam who owned an establishment on Chartres Street near Jackson Square. †4. colloquial. Used by alumni of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge as a title for the other, ‘sister’ university. Cf. mother n.¹ 4e, sister n. Compounds 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > university > specific university Oxon.c1439 Oxford1455 Sorbonne1560 aunt1625 T.C.D.1831 other place1899 open university1902 U.C.L.a1912 University of the Air1922 U.C.L.A.1941 U.C.D.1955 OU1969 open1970 College of the Air1977 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 480 Of this inough, and perhaps more then mine Aunt Cambridge will conne me thanke for. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 118 The Sons of our Aunt are loth to consent, that one who was taught in Cambridge, should teach in Oxford. 1701 S. Pepys Corr. 403 An humble present of mine, though a Cambridge man, to my dear Aunt, the University of Oxford. 1792 G. Wakefield Mem. 66 Rapin, by a strange blunder, makes him an Oxford man. Alas! my aunt has triumphed over my mother in many instances. Phrases colloquial (originally and chiefly British). my (giddy, sainted, etc.) aunt!: used as an exclamation expressing surprise, consternation, etc. Now somewhat dated. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection] goodness1623 agad1672 Godsokers1672 Oh dear!1694 law1763 lud1767 Dear me!1773 Lor1776 dear knows!1805 Great God!1819 Great Scott1852 Jehoshaphat1857 lors1860 Great Sun!1867 Great Caesar!1870 gracious me!1884 my (giddy, sainted, etc.) aunt!1886 snakes1891 lieber Gott1898 my gosh!1920 cor1931 1886 Oxf. Tatler 15 May 43/1 ‘My aunt!’ gasped Scrubbs, and dropped his pipe. 1888 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys 55 Prince Kraft a stable-boy! Oh, my Aunt! 1890 Bristol Mercury 11 Jan. (Weekly Suppl.) 8/4 ‘My sainted aunt!’ cried Percy Verance, ‘What Can be an answer to such awful rot?’ 1903 T.P.'s Weekly 12 June 22/3 ‘Oh, my giddy Aunt!’ murmurs the disappointed shop-girl, sniffing. 1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast viii. 168 My holy aunt! The General disguised as Charlie Chaplin! 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point x. 163 Rampion..turned up his eyes. ‘Oh, my sacred aunt!’ he said. 1975 R. Dahl Danny Champion of World xi ‘Oh, my darling boy,’ he said softly. ‘Oh, my sainted aunt! I do believe you've got it. Yes, I do—I do—I do.’ 2012 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 21 July 16 Oh my giddy aunt, here comes another shower! Compounds Aunt Edna n. a (supposedly) typical theatregoer of conservative taste; also occasionally in extended use with reference to other arts.Coined by the British playwright Terence Rattigan (1911–77). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > theatre-going > theatregoer > [noun] > conservative Aunt Edna1953 1953 T. Rattigan Coll. Plays II. p. xii Let us invent a character, a nice, respectable, middle-class, middle-aged, maiden lady, with time on her hands and the money to help her pass it... Let us call her Aunt Edna... Now Aunt Edna does not appreciate Kafka... She is, in short, a hopeless lowbrow. 1958 N. F. Simpson Resounding Tinkle in Observer Plays 241 The author..leans forward..to make simultaneous overtures of sumptuous impropriety to every Aunt Edna in the house. 1963 T. Rattigan in Daily Express 8 July 6/2 It is still assumed by some critics that I am still writing to lift the hearts of those Aunt Ednas of mine. 1990 P. Green Alexander to Actium 246 A group of women, as featherbrained and talkative as Theocritus's Syracusan matrons,..praising, like so many Aunt Ednas, the realism of the artwork on display. 2011 Observer (Nexis) 27 Feb. (Review section) 36 In the USSR of the 1950s, playwrights..had to conform to Stalin's notions of socialist realism; in 1950s UK, it was the West End, ‘Aunt Edna’ and the censor they had to please. Aunt Emma n. Croquet (the type of) an unenterprising or excessively defensive player; play regarded as characteristic of such a player; frequently attributive.In quot. 1900 used as the name of the fictitious author of a chapter on such tactics. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > unenterprising play or player Aunt Emma1931 1900 A. Lillie Croquet up to Date Contents p. v Cowardly tactics by Aunt Emma.] 1931 Handbk. Mod. Croquet (Croquet Assoc.) v. 55 It would seem as though the basis of over-caution, a backward-game, refusal to take risks, ‘Aunt Emma’, as this malady is sometimes derisively called, were a subconscious conviction that somehow or other, given sufficient patience and care, there is an absolutely safe way to the winning-peg. 1960 E. P. C. Cotter Tackle Croquet this Way 66 Whatever happens don't become an Aunt Emma player. 1963 Croquet Aug. 3/1 Aunt Emma is banished for ever. 1967 Croquet Aug.–Sept. 13/2 He played too much ‘Aunt Emma’. 2000 Canberra Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. a6 Frequently this is compounded by your opponent causing your balls to be well apart so that a roquet is difficult. This is—not at all affectionately—known as ‘Aunt Emma’ tactics. aunt-in-law n. the wife or female partner of one's uncle. ΚΠ a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 7 Sept. in J. Strype Mem. Cranmer (1694) i. xii. 46 Aunt & Aunt-in-Law, Niece and Niece-in-Law. 1678 A. Walker Ἕυρηκα 93 Those three excellent Ladies to whom she was an own Mother, though but an Aunt-in-law. 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 15 The Fifth, an Ancient Gentlewoman, Aunt-in-Law to my Husband, a Widow, and the least able also of any of the rest, did, indeed, ask me to sit down. 1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage III. iv. 61 Ha'vn't [sic] I explained to you..that I am your son's aunt-in-law, Mrs. Dyke Robsey, of Portland Place? 1924 Legal Aid Rev. Oct. 5/1 Friction arose between the alien and her uncle's family, her aunt-in-law..becoming jealous and making things so uncomfortable for her that she was compelled to withdraw from her uncle's home. 2007 C. Riggs Shooting Star xiv. 111 What an injustice. His own uncle and goddamned aunt-in-law locking him out. Aunt Jemima n. [ < Aunt Jemima (late 19th cent.), a brand name for a range of foodstuffs produced originally by the Aunt Jemima Mills Co. of St Joseph, Missouri, bearing the logo of a black woman] U.S. colloquial (derogatory) a black woman, (in later use) spec. one considered submissive or servile towards white people; cf. Uncle Tom n. ΚΠ 1853 Gleason's Pict. 5 Feb. 94/3 The [title of] uncle was a courtesy they gave..Just as the master makes of some good slave An Aunt Jemima, or an Uncle Jim.] 1897 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 30 Oct. 6/2 Of course, the more ludicrous the combinations of form and color, the better, and yellow kid niggers, Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas, Darktown Swells and many other curious and comical characters will be in evidence in the walk. 1944 Phylon 5 244 Significant among such names are these: George, James, Sam, Sambo, Uncle Tom, Marcus, Garvey, Jim, Rastus—all applied to male Negroes; Aunt Jemima , Brown Sugar, Dark Meat, Shady Lady, Mandy, Mammy, Raven Beauty—female Negroes; [etc.]. 1961 Chicago Daily Defender 7 Aug. 9/3 A Negro high school principal in a mostly white school who backed the school board was attacked by Zuber as ‘The Aunt Jemima of Uncle Tom's cabin’. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Dec. 89/2 Grady..was already working part-time in white homes. One day a boy started ragging Grady for being an ‘Aunt Jemima’. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Aug. b17 She charged that the film depicted her as an ‘Aunt Jemima’ who sang gospel songs and spoke in a stereotyped dialect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300
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