auntly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From aunt + -ly.