Aunt vs Munt - What's the difference?
aunt | munt |
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:
(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.
A black person, usually a man.
* 2006 , Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman , Zebra Press, page 63:
As nouns the difference between aunt and munt
is that aunt is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent while munt is a black person, usually a man.As a verb munt is
(australia|slang) to vomit (usually while drunk).aunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.
Antonyms
* (with regard to gender) uncle * (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephewHyponyms
* (qualifier, sister of someone's father) paternal aunt * (qualifier, sister of someone's mother) maternal auntDerived terms
* Auntie * auntie, aunty * agony aunt * big auntie * great-aunt * grandaunt * little auntie * mine aunt * nauntSee also
* (l)Anagrams
* (l)munt
English
Etymology 1
Derived from umntu , Ndebele for a human being.Noun
(en noun)- Munt'' was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks. I suspect its origin was the word ''umntu , Ndebele for a person or human being