Aunt Sally

Meaning

Proper Noun

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

Origin

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

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