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maiden aunt

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n.1.Literally, an aunt who has never been married. Figuratively, it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much about programming as my maiden aunt.
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Noun1.maiden auntmaiden aunt - an unmarried aunt                    
aunt, auntie, aunty - the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
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maiden aunt n → zia nubile (pej) → zia zitella
maiden aunt n → zia nubile (pej) → zia zitella


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Miss Emmerson, the maiden aunt of Julia, withdrew from the door, where she had been conversing with Mr.
Imagination and Heart by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
What do you think, for instance, of his discussing the lengths to which a married woman might let her admiration go for a man who was not her husband, and putting it in his clear-headed witty French way to the maiden aunt of the Vicar of Frizinghall?
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
This sickened her of America, and she came back to live with a maiden aunt at Pinner, in Middlesex.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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