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AUNT

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aunt substantiv

1. mătuşă; tanti;

my aunt! maică (mare)! tii!;

(glumeţ) virgin aunt mătuşă necăsătorită;

(fam.) if my aunt had been a man, she’d have been my uncle dacă baba ar avea roate ar fi tramvai.

2. (înv.) babă; mahalagioaică.

3. (înv.) codoaşă, proxenetă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Yes, we must suppose the faults of the niece to have been those of the aunt; and it makes one more sensible of the disadvantages she has been under.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“How is she?” said my aunt, folding her arms with her bonnet still tied on one of them.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Aunt and Flo are very kind, but you seem like one of the family, and it would be so comfortable to have you for a little while.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She is at the lodge, aunt.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It depends entirely upon his aunt's spirits and pleasure; in short, upon her temper.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Jane looked well, and Elizabeth had little opportunity of studying her spirits, amidst the various engagements which the kindness of her aunt had reserved for them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I could do it, and I will do it, too. ‘Wait!’ says my uncle—‘wait, and it will all come right for you.’ That is what he always says, and my aunt the same.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play; and as his aunt would not let him tease his sick brother, he began to fasten himself upon her, as she knelt, in such a way that, busy as she was about Charles, she could not shake him off.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

“What upon?” said my aunt, sharply.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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