maunt

Brrr surrenders his story to the ailing maunt: Abandoned as a cub, his earliest memories are gluey hazes, and his path from infancy in the Great Gillikin Forest is no Yellow Brick Road.

A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire: Book summary 2010

In the yard he saw the laundry cart to which Candle and that ferociously old maunt had dragged him.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

For one thing, the ancient maunt had little interest in cuisine, her stomach having been soured by too many decades of regrettable food served under bad kitchen government.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

The Superior Maunt occasionally listened to testimonies of sin confessed by her sisters, but during her tenure as a maunt, Elphaba had never petitioned for an audience.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

 She was too beautiful to be a natural maunt, so she must be a moron.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

The ancient maunt — older even than the Superior Maunt, by the look of it, or more infirm, anyway — had pulled her shawl over her forehead, to keep the morning sun out of her eyes.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

A fourth maunt, sequestered behind a screen, played a welcoming anthem, poorly.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

Certainly one maunt and the next seemed identical twins.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

It was only the addled elderly maunt, the senior biddy in the place, the one known as Mother Yackle.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

So she says _her_ dog maunt niver fight an 'noa Christians iver fought.

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900