資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Aunt \Aunt\, n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister.
   Cf. {Amma}.]
   1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to
      nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

   Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of
         endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.

   2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] --Shak.

   3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak.

   {Aunt Sally}, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a
      pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying
      to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.