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nanny
1[ nan-ee ]
noun
- a person, usually with special training, employed to care for children in a household.
Nanny
2[ nan-ee ]
noun
- a female given name.
nanny
/ ˈæɪ /
noun
- a nurse or nursemaid for children
- any person or thing regarded as treating people like children, esp by being patronizing or overprotective
- ( as modifier )
the nanny state
- a child's word for grandmother
verb
- intr to nurse or look after someone else's children
- tr to be overprotective towards
Word History and Origins
Origin of nanny1
Word History and Origins
Origin of nanny1
Example Sentences
You had to go back to waiting tables, and you were a nanny.
The magazine is famed for its etiquette advice and adverts for butlers, nannies and discreet liaisons with well-heeled 60-somethings.
In the Republican world, freedom means going unvaccinated in a pandemic in order to give the finger to the nanny state.
Three of the women worked for the late billionaire and former owner of Harrods as nannies and two as private air stewards between 1995 and 2012.
Reacting to the outcome, James Evans MS, the Welsh Conservatives' health and social care representative, described the rules as "nanny state nonsense".
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