Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person, traditionally a woman, employed to take care of a child.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nanny-goat.
- noun In coal-mining, a natural joint, crack, or slip in the coal-measures: nearly the same as
cleat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A diminutive of
Ann orAnne , the proper name. - noun [Colloq.] a female goat.
- noun a caretaker for a child; a child's nurse; a nursemaid.
- noun Grandmother; -- a child's word, used especially as a form of address. See also
nana .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
child 'snurse - noun colloquial A
grandmother . - noun A
female goat
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun female goat
- noun a woman who is the custodian of children
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has used the phrase "nanny state."
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I hope for every drunken nanny (that's what we call the nanny in my big sis's comment), there is a Laura and that she will be walking down your cul de sac soon and knowcking on your door.
geneva conventions 2009
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Like they have their own place separate from the Donald and his latest, as if the nanny is the mommy?
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I remember Anson Guthrie remarking once that when he was young, Sweden was what he called a nanny state, but it got rid of that and nowadays people there are more free than in most countries, including North America.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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I remember Anson Guthrie remarking once that when he was young, Sweden was what he called a nanny state, but it got rid of that and nowadays people there are more free than in most countries, including North America.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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When you're at work, these strangers you call their nanny are the ones interacting with your kids.
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Sara Gran quickly nails the fundamental weakness of CF's argument of "telling other women not to work and to raise their kids themselves ... as she's writing books and a nanny is watching her kids."
Humour Maxine 2009
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If a nanny is of use to their project, she will be enlisted.
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Sara Gran quickly nails the fundamental weakness of CF's argument of "telling other women not to work and to raise their kids themselves ... as she's writing books and a nanny is watching her kids."
Magazines Maxine 2009
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"Whenever I called the nanny agencies [for work] before, right away they'd give me some families who wanted to interview me," says Natasha Ivanov, a Mountain View resident who has worked as a nanny here for 15 years.
Soft Economy Eases Cost of Hiring a Nanny Pui-Wing Tam 2010
BrainyBabe commented on the word nanny
"Children, look what Mummy's brought! A new Nanny! Come and say 'How do you do?'" - ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
(Note the use of "nanny" instead of "nurse" -- what would Nancy Mitford have said about its U-ness?)
December 24, 2008
dailyword commented on the word nanny
Holmes sometimes calls Mrs. Hudson this.
June 13, 2012