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Untie vs Auntie - What's the difference?

untie | auntie |

As a verb untie

is to loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

As a noun auntie is

diminutive of lang=en.

As a proper noun Auntie is

(UK) an affectionate nickname for the BBC.

untie

English

Verb

  • To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
    • to untie a knot
  • * (rfdate), Waller:
    • Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
  • To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  • * Shakespeare, Macbeth , act 4, scene 1:
    • Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
  • * (rfdate), Jeremy Taylor:
    • All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
  • To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  • * (rfdate), Denham:
    • They quicken sloth, perplexities untie .
  • To become untied or loosed.

    • Antonyms

    * tie

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    auntie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * aunty

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Term of familiarity or respect applied to an elderly woman.
  • Affectionate term used by a young person of an unrelated adult female family friend.

    • Synonyms

    * aunt

    See also

    * uncle

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