Meaning of auntishly | Babel Free

Definitions

In an auntish manner.

Examples

“Besides, my matronly character, years, &c. entitle me to treat you if not maternally, a little auntishly.”

““[…] I saw a girl buying chops in a butcher’s while I was waiting and I thought Eric ought to paint her. He’d go mad at sight of her. She had everything a painter wants.” […] “What do you mean by everything?” she auntishly asked, becoming aware of what Val had said about a girl buying chops. “Raw beauty,” he teased, “unadorned and to be adorned by the painter; myth-making face; body excavated from mythology too.[…]””

“Whatever Mother and Father, and Aunt Rosa Bona auntishly doting and chirruping under her platter of feathers, may believe, I have never really seen their faces.”

“There were French and German horses among the entries and a great many foreign visitors – ‘quite a babel of tongues on the roof of the grandstand’ clucked The Times rather auntishly.”

“It was so pleasant being bossed auntishly by Truman, told when to come and see him, when to go off by ourselves, where to eat and how we were to take whirlpool mineral baths, steam and massage at the Spa Hotel.”

“I need that assurance, will she ruffle self’s curls and smile auntishly, or will her caress mean something?”

““You’re talking to a bunch of Southern writers who really enjoyed your show this morning. It’s like sitting down in the parlor listening to my aunt tell stories,” he said. “Everyone here has been so hospitable and supportive of me,” replied Miss [Eudora] Welty, auntishly proper and polite.”

“Because of the interest he began to show in Pansy and the attention he gave her, Henry thought Kennedy ‘behaved terribly auntishly’ towards him.”

“Little Gottfried is waving a building brick under my nose and saying, ‘Aunt Miesenmaus, Goffi write to Uncle Dietrich too!’ – so I keep having to break off and be auntishly unschoolmarmish. I don’t think any aunt has ever been so besotted with her nephew. I wish I could bring him to see you some time.”

“She wanted to warn, “Don’t, Tamzin! Don’t expose your fragile heart! George is a good boy, but he . . . he’s a boy! He doesn’t think in the long-term, that you might fall to bits when it ends.” But, of course, she just smiled and patted their shoulders auntishly. And behind her back she crossed her fingers really hard.”

“Slowly, auntishly, Cathleen puts her hand out and pats Jonathan’s arm.”

“An older lady sits and clings to him for a while, auntishly. […] He sits auntishly in the comfy damp chair.”

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