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Definition of Agony aunt
1. Noun. A newspaper columnist who answers questions and offers advice on personal problems to people who write in.
Definition of Agony aunt
1. Noun. A writer of an advice column in a newspaper or other periodical. ¹
2. Noun. Someone who people commonly go to for advice about personal problems, often annoyingly so. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agony Aunt
Literary usage of Agony aunt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Johnson's First [-fifth] Reader by Henrietta H. Richardson, Nannie Clements, Louise Manly, Blanche Wynne Johnson, Eugene Cunningham Branson (1899)
"... and rolling over and over on the floor in his death agony. Aunt Patience
climbed on the high bedstead and crouched in one corner, trembling and fearing ..."
2. Tomorrow's Women by Helen M. Wilkinson, Melanie Howard (1997)
"... and mother of ten children, Anne Atkins, the Daily Telegraph agony aunt, and
even Paula Yates, author of a book on the virtues of women staying at home. ..."
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