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Meaning of "Aunt Sally" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AUNT SALLY

Aunt Sally  [ˈsælɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUNT SALLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Aunt Sally is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AUNT SALLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Aunt Sally

Aunt Sally is a traditional throwing game. The term is often used metaphorically to mean something that is a target for criticism. In particular, referring to the fairground origins, an Aunt Sally would be "set up" deliberately to be subsequently "knocked down", usually by the same person who set the person up.

Definition of Aunt Sally in the English dictionary

The first definition of Aunt Sally in the dictionary is a figure of an old woman's head, typically with a clay pipe, used in fairgrounds and fêtes as a target for balls or other objects. Other definition of Aunt Sally is any person who is a target for insults or criticism. Aunt Sally is also something set up as a target for disagreement or attack.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUNT SALLY


alley
ˈælɪ
back-alley
ˈbækˌælɪ
bally
ˈbælɪ
challis
ˈʃælɪ
dally
ˈdælɪ
dilly-dally
ˌdɪlɪˈdælɪ
galley
ˈɡælɪ
Halley
ˈhælɪ
kali
ˈkælɪ
pally
ˈpælɪ
rally
ˈrælɪ
reveille
rɪˈvælɪ
sallee
ˈsælɪ
sally
ˈsælɪ
scally
ˈskælɪ
shalli
ˈʃælɪ
tally
ˈtælɪ
teocalli
ˌtiːəʊˈkælɪ
trevally
trɪˈvælɪ
valley
ˈvælɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUNT SALLY

Aulis
Auliye-Ata
aulnage
aulnager
aulos
Aum Shinrikyo
aumbries
aumbry
aumil
aune
Aung San Suu Kyi
aunt
Aunt Sallies
aunthood
auntie
auntie man
auntie-ji
auntlike
auntly
Aunty

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUNT SALLY

actually
additionally
automatically
basically
especially
eventually
finally
generally
historically
initially
literally
locally
naturally
normally
originally
really
specifically
totally
typically
usually

Synonyms and antonyms of Aunt Sally in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Aunt Sally» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUNT SALLY

Find out the translation of Aunt Sally to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Aunt Sally from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Aunt Sally» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

萨莉阿姨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tía Sally
570 millions of speakers

English

Aunt Sally
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चाची सैली
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العمة سالي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тетя Салли
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tia Sally
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আন্টি স্যালি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tante Sally
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mak Cik Sally
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zielscheibe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サリーおばさん
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이모 샐리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bibi Sally
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cô Sally
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அத்தை சாலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मामी सैली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sally teyze
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zia Sally
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciotka Sally
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тітка Саллі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mătușa Sally
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Η θεία Sally
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tante Sally
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Aunt Sally
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tante Sally
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Aunt Sally

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUNT SALLY»

The term «Aunt Sally» is regularly used and occupies the 82.425 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUNT SALLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Aunt Sally

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUNT SALLY»

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Aunt Sally's cornpone remedies & claptrap cures: 159 tonics ...
Categorized under General Distress, Physical Ailments, Love Sickness, Money Ailments, Beauty Problems, People Problems, and Aunt Sally's Emergency Checklist and Poor Folks' First Aid, the remedies and cures preferred by Aunt Sally come with ...
Ellen Patrick, 1995
2
Aunt Sally, come up! or the Nigger Sale. [Reprinted from the ...
Horace GREELEY. GEORGE HARDY, A COLOU'RED YOUTH, discovered in his earliest years a quickness of discernment and readiness of apprehension rarely surpassed ,being able to read the Bible when four years old. Though furnished ...
Horace GREELEY, 1859
3
Aunt Sally - The Cross The Way To Freedom:
Robinson Crusoe andthe Arabian Nights would seem lifeless and uninteresting by the side of hundreds of true and simple narratives which might be written of slave life in our Southern States. This story of "Aunt Sally" is, probably, no more ...
Isaac Williams, 2014
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Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker
It is Aunt Sally who gives Vyry the tools of a black woman's survival and resistance under slavery, which enable her to grow to wholeness. Aunt Sally is a major character in Jubilee, even though she exits from Vyry's life early on, when she is ...
Maryemma Graham, 2001
5
Gender Play in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and Transgression
He proposes first to steal Aunt Sally's dress and put it on, thereby playing the role of Jim's mother; he then plans to have Jim take the dress off him and put it on himself. He embellishes: “I'll stuff Jim's clothes full of straw and lay it on his bed to  ...
Linda Morris, 2007
6
Jubilee
Big Missy and Marse John had arranged to sell Aunt Sally. She would go first to Savannah and then by boat to New Orleans, where she would go on the auction block and be sold to the highest bidder. The morning she was ordered to go, she  ...
Margaret Walker, 1999
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Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports
Aunt Sally is a throwing game played outside public houses throughout Oxfordshire, south Warwickshire and around Abingdon, in what was north Berkshire. Pubs are organised into a series of local leagues, mostly established after 1918.
Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew, 2005
8
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
says Aunt Sally; “Is he changed so?Why,that ain't Tom, it'sSid; Tom's—Tom's— why, where isTom?Hewas here a minute ago.” “You mean where's Huck Finn— that's what youmean! Ireckon I hain't raised such a scamp as my Tom all these ...
Mark Twain, 2013
9
Huckleberry Finn
... and found a couple of shingle-nails that Tom said would be handy for a prisoner to scrabble his name and sorrows on the dungeon walls with, and dropped one of them in Aunt Sally's apron-pocket which was hanging on a chair, and t'other ...
Mark Twain, 1971
10
My Soul's Been Anchored: A Preacher's Heritage in the Faith
Still, you must know Aunt Sally. Her real name was Sally Matthews but we all just called her Aunt Sally. Aunt Sally lived in a little wood-frame house behind the Mount Olivet Church on Cherry Street. It was, as I recall, little more than a " shotgun" ...
H. Beecher Hicks, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUNT SALLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Aunt Sally is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Pastor's View: Seismic cultural changes ignore very real …
... children in the family who are forming their own senses of sexual identity and are confused as to why Uncle Harry has become Aunt Sally? «Duluth News Tribune, Jul 15»
2
Which blusher should I use for my skin type? We show you how to …
To avoid looking like Aunt Sally, application is key. Build up slowly starting with a small amount using a blusher brush or your fingers. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
ROUND-UP: White Lion stay at top of the tree
AUNT SALLY: White Lion stayed top of the Premier and Division 1 of the Bicester & District League sponsored by Hook Norton Brewery with a ... «Bicester Advertiser, Jul 15»
4
Grasse Jasmine Festival: flower power wins in Provence
A young woman with cheeks painted Aunt Sally red throws a garland of white flowers towards me. I stretch up and catch it. Large silk petals ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
AUNT SALLY: Struggling Chequers A shock leaders Crown Chalgrove
CHEQUERS A moved off the bottom of the table with a shock 2-1 win over leaders Crown Chalgrove in Section 3 of the Greene King Oxford ... «Oxford Mail, Jun 15»
6
Cooking with Aunt Sally's notebook
When I need to throw a dessert together quickly with ingredients I have in the house, I rely on my Aunt Sally's Old Fashioned Apple Cake. «OCRegister, Jun 15»
7
Remarkable former publican Florence going strong at 104
... of its setting beside the attractive Hinksey Stream, its large garden and the devotion of its regulars to the Oxfordshire game of Aunt Sally. «Oxford Mail, Jun 15»
8
Meet 5 local couples together since high school
He plastered the hallways with signs that said things like, "My dear Aunt Sally, please tell Carol to vote for me!" Not only did the student ... «The Journal News | LoHud.com, Jun 15»
9
Free Aunt Sally's Pralines for a year!
All you have to do to enter the contest for the free pralines is take a selfie with one of Aunt Sally's Pralines. Then post it on Facebook, Twitter, ... «WGNO, Jun 15»
10
Care package event held for La. Guardsmen
... AT&T, New Orleans Saints and Pelicans, Community Coffee Company, Tony Chachere's, Point Coupee Pecan and Aunt Sally's Pralines. «The Advocate, Jun 15»

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