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aunties
[ an-teez, ahn-teez ]
Example Sentences
“There was a group of poor Asian aunties that had all got pushed to the floor. They grazed their knees and they also snapped a few nails, too.”
Lee noted that the term “aunties,” which is common parlance for domestic workers in South Korea, underscores these gender prejudices.
The older women meet with them for festivals and protests - they call them "their babies" while they are named "aunties" in return.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland — the first Indigenous woman in a presidential cabinet and “the auntie of all aunties,” as one community leader put it — spent a recent weekend in Navajo Nation.
The styling and beauty on many of the looks evoked, for me, the enduring influence of Black and brown aunties everywhere — the hair gelled to sculptural effect, the nails, the eyebrows.
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