Flaunt vs Aunt - What's the difference?
flaunt | aunt |
(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
To parade, display with ostentation.
(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
* Arbuthnot
* Alexander Pope
* 1856 , ,
* 1897 , ,
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.
1000 English basic words
As a verb flaunt
is (obsolete) to wave or flutter smartly in the wind.As a noun aunt is
a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.flaunt
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- She's always flaunting her designer clothes.
- You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.
- One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.
- [T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.
- … and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.
Usage notes
* Do not confuse with flout.aunt
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Noun
(en noun)- I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.