naunt Now dial. or arch.
(nɑːnt)
[var. of aunt, with n transferred from myn ‘mine’: see N 3 b for earlier examples.]
Aunt.
| 1621 Fletcher Pilgrim iv. i, Pr'ythee, keep on thy way, good naunt. 1632 Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age iv. i, If shee doe but take After mine old Naunt Hellen. 1679 Dryden Limberham i. i, The easiest fool I ever knew, next my naunt of fairies in the Alchemist. 1737–42 Shenstone Schoolmistress vii, Goody, good woman, gossip, n'aunt,..Or dame, the sole additions she did hear. 1823 Scott Peveril xxvi, Naunt and she will soon bend bows on each other. |