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Aunt vs Lunt - What's the difference?

aunt | lunt |

As nouns the difference between aunt and lunt

is that aunt is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent while lunt is a slow-burning match or torch.

aunt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.
  • * 2007 , Nancy Eshelman, A Piece of My Mind: Columns from the Patriot-News , page 35:
    • I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.
  • (also'' great-aunt ''or grandaunt) A person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law.
  • (usually auntie) A grandmother.
  • An affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

    • Antonyms

    * (with regard to gender) uncle * (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew

    Hyponyms

    * (qualifier, sister of someone's father) paternal aunt * (qualifier, sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt

    Derived terms

    * Auntie * auntie, aunty * agony aunt * big auntie * great-aunt * grandaunt * little auntie * mine aunt * naunt

    See also

    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    References

    1000 English basic words

    lunt

    English

    Noun

    (lunts)
  • A slow-burning match or torch.
  • * 1969 , Robert Nye, Tales I Told My Mother ,
    • Bent down and saw I was right. A lunt' up the bugger’s nose. A ' lunt ? said Doctor Copper. Almost as long as your left forefinger, yes, said his visitor. Still burning.
  • Smoke with flames, especially from a pipe.
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