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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unmarried aunt
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