summon auntie

English

Alternative forms

• saman auntie

Etymology

Compound noun formed with the English word summon (see summons, noun) and auntie (“term of familiarity or respect applied to elderly women”).

Pronunciation

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmən ˈɑnti/, [ˈsa˧.mən˦ ˈan˧.ti˦], [-i˦˧], (using the pronunciation of saman in Malay) /ˈsɑmɑn ˈɑnti/

Noun

summon auntie (plural summon aunties)

1. (Singapore, colloquial, informal) A parking enforcement officer who goes around public parking spaces to issue parking tickets to illegally parked cars
   • 2011 October 18, Willis Wee, “iPhone App Spots Parking Meter Attendants in Singapore”, in Tech in Asia‎, retrieved 2016-03-28:

     Summon Auntie is a Singlish phrase that describes meter attendants, usually middle-aged women, who give parking fines to cars that are illegally parked

   • 2013 October 3, Azilah, “‘Summon auntie’ chases off bikini-clad sunbathers at Redhill car park”, in Yahoo! News‎, retrieved 2016-03-28:

     ‘Summon auntie’ chases off bikini-clad sunbathers at Redhill car park. A video of a female car park attendant chasing off two bikini-clad girls sunbathing at the top of a multi-storey car park in Redhill has gotten people talking.

   • 2014 February 5, Belmont Lay, “This Will Convince Everybody Why No One Should Ever Become a Summon Auntie”, in mothership.sg‎, retrieved 2016-03-28:

     The New Paper recently wrote a story on Feb. 4 about the plight of parking enforcement officers, also known as parking wardens or summon aunties

   • 2015 July 10, Lim Min Zhang, The Straits Times::

     Take, for instance, the summon auntie who dishes out fines to cars parked illegally - she's someone everyone recognizes