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Definition: AUNT SALLY |
AUNT SALLY1. A puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it. |
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Literature | Aunt Sally A game in which a wooden head is mounted on a pole. The fun of the game is to knock the nose of the figure, or break the pipe stuck in its mouth. This is to be done by throwing at it, from a stated distance, a short club. The word aunt was anciently applied to any old woman: thus, in Shakespeare, Puck speaks of "The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale." -- Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aunt Sally (1933) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aunt sally | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "AUNT SALLY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | zielscheibe (butt, object, target). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auntay allysay kadın biçimindeki kukla dövülerek oynanan oyun, herkesin eleştirisine uğrayan kişi. (various references) mục tiêu chế giễu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-l-n-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: alanyls, analyst, nasally, sultana. | |
-3 letters: alants, alanyl, allays, anally, aslant, auntly, lastly, lauans, nyalas, slanty, sultan, unlays, yulans. | |
-4 letters: alans, alant, allay, alula, anlas, antas, antsy, asyla, atlas, aunts, aunty, lauan, lunas, lunts, lusty, nasal, nasty, natal, nulls, nutsy, nyala, salal, sally, salty, satay, sault, sauna, slant, slaty, stall, stull, sully, talas, tally. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-l-n-s-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: unpleasantly. | |
+4 letters: faunistically, saturnalianly, situationally, substantially. | |
+5 letters: humanistically, numismatically, substantivally, supernaturally, ultrasonically, urbanistically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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