词汇 | aunt edna |
词源 | Aunt Edna. The creation of British playwright Terence Ratti- gan (1911–77) in his Collected Works (1953). An Aunt Edna is a close relative of the American little old lady from Dubuque— nice but provincial, middle-class, very prudish, and traditional. See old lady in dubuque. |
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