auntly

comparative auntlier · comparative more auntly · superlative auntliest · superlative most auntly

1. Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.

   It was late, very late, when finally she climbed into the great bed after having received an auntly kiss.

   1928, Nella Larsen, “13”, in Quicksand, page 159

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   The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.

   2001, Mary Evans, Feminism

   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.

   2012, Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage

comparative auntlier · comparative more auntly · superlative auntliest · superlative most auntly

1. In the manner of an aunt.