maiden aunt

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun maiden aunt has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

maiden auntn. 
     Literally, an aunt who has never been married. Figuratively, it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much about programming as my maiden aunt.  [PJC]

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