English Explanatory Dictionary

Aunt Sally

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A traditional game in which balls are thrown to break the pipe in the mouth of a figurine resembling an old woman.
  2. A figure drawing criticism or ridicule, especially when prejudiced or unwarranted.

Word forms

Aunt Sally

Etymology

Apparently after My Old Aunt Sally, the title of a blackface minstrel song written by Dan Emmett in 1843.

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