Family reunion nickname

Usage examples of aunty.

She would have hit Aunty Em with the broom and called Toto and walked away and never come back.

There was a pig-bristle brush, and Aunty Em began to scrub her with it.

She could very finely gauge what would annoy Aunty Em, what was safe and what was not.

Dorothy wanted to believe that, except that Aunty Em really did have a lot to say about the Indians: how they spoke, what they wore.

Uncle Henry, Aunty Em and Dorothy all squeezed up together on the front bench of the wagon.

Now that Dorothy had been scrubbed and boiled and shorn for months, she was clean enough to sit next to Aunty Em.

She knew it from the stiff-backed way Aunty Em climbed down from the rickety wagon and from the way she folded up the hides, with a series of smart snaps, as if they were something rare and precious, to be protected.

In Manhattan, Aunty Em was still a Branscomb, the educated daughter of a local dignitary.

It was one of the worst things Aunty Em had found out when she came, that Dorothy did not know her prayers.

She heard Aunty Em call, and she walked back down to punishment and food and a new clean bed.

She would sit by the window, and Aunty Em would open up some huge volume smelling of mushrooms and dust.

Another bad thing that Aunty Em had found out when Dorothy came was that she did not know her letters.

She watched Aunty Em repairing shoes, repairing trousers, jabbing the needle so hard that she sometimes stabbed herself with it.

He would slump in his chair as Aunty Em threw pots about the stove, spilling, burning, humming hymns to herself.

With her whole being, Aunty Em wanted to recite her poem at the banquet.