auntie
英 ['ɑːntɪ]
美 ['ænti]
英語の語源
- auntie (n.)
- 1787, also aunty, familiar diminutive form of aunt. As a form of kindly address to an older woman to whom one is not related, originally in southern U.S., of elderly slave women.
The negro no longer submits with grace to be called "uncle" or "auntie" as of yore. ["Harper's Magazine," October 1883]
例文
- 1. Auntie Hilda and Uncle Jack couldn 't fuss over them enough.
- ヒルダおばさんとジャックおじさんは彼らをかわいがっている。
- 2. Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop.
- おばさんとおじさんは彼女に店で働くことを勧めた。
- 3.His uncle is dead,but his auntie still lives here.
- 彼の伯父は亡くなったが、伯母はまだここで暮らしている。
- 4. Auntie Winnie wrote back saying Mam wasn 't well enough to write.おばさんは、母の体がまだ回復しておらず、手紙を書くことができないと返信した。
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- 5. " Auntie told me not to run, " he explained, " on account of my asthma. ”
- 「おばさんは走るなと言った」と彼は説明した。「喘息持ちだから」