- agony aunt
- nouna newspaper columnist who answers questions and offers advice on personal problems to people who write in• Hypernyms: ↑newspaper columnist
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nounUsage: chiefly Brit: a person who writes an advice column* * *
agony aunt noun1. (sometimes with caps) a person, usu a woman, who gives advice in an agony column or in a radio or television programme of similar nature2. Any female adviser (informal)• • •Main Entry: ↑agony* * *
a woman whose job is to give advice about personal problems in a newspaper or magazine by answering people’s letters. The American word is advice columnist .* * *
noun, pl ⋯ aunts [count]Brit : a person who writes an agony columnHundreds of people write in to the paper's agony aunt [=(US) advice columnist] every week.
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a person who writes in a newspaper or magazine giving advice in reply to people's letters about their personal problemsSee also: ↑advice columnist
Useful english dictionary. 2012.