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Definition of maiden aunt in English: maiden auntnoun An aunt who has never been married, typically characterized as prim or old-fashioned. it is not the type of movie you'd take your maiden aunt to see Example sentencesExamples - For the first six years, before my brother arrived, I was the sole focus of parents, granny and several maiden aunts.
- Gone were the days when she needed such guardianship, now she was the maiden aunt.
- I do not want to speak in a patronising or inappropriate manner - like a maiden aunt trying to speak skateboard jargon.
- The estate and its fortune was left to the bachelor uncle and maiden aunt.
- Book your tickets now for a great night's entertainment, but don't bring your maiden aunt unless she's got a good sense of humour!
- It is all those words we wouldn't utter in a job interview or in front of a maiden aunt.
- I did my best to yank him out of his drink and drugs, and nagged him like a 105-year-old maiden aunt.
- During my college vacations it had been my custom to stay with my two maiden aunts.
- During his absence the family moved to south London, where Dora grew up surrounded by a close-knit extended family of maiden aunts and grandparents.
- Their mother died when they were only two and they were brought up by two maiden aunts.
- This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
Definition of maiden aunt in US English: maiden auntnoun An aunt who has never been married, typically characterized as prim or old-fashioned. it is not the type of movie you'd take your maiden aunt to see Example sentencesExamples - The estate and its fortune was left to the bachelor uncle and maiden aunt.
- This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
- Gone were the days when she needed such guardianship, now she was the maiden aunt.
- During my college vacations it had been my custom to stay with my two maiden aunts.
- Their mother died when they were only two and they were brought up by two maiden aunts.
- For the first six years, before my brother arrived, I was the sole focus of parents, granny and several maiden aunts.
- I did my best to yank him out of his drink and drugs, and nagged him like a 105-year-old maiden aunt.
- It is all those words we wouldn't utter in a job interview or in front of a maiden aunt.
- I do not want to speak in a patronising or inappropriate manner - like a maiden aunt trying to speak skateboard jargon.
- Book your tickets now for a great night's entertainment, but don't bring your maiden aunt unless she's got a good sense of humour!
- During his absence the family moved to south London, where Dora grew up surrounded by a close-knit extended family of maiden aunts and grandparents.
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