nanny
IPA: nˈæni
noun
- A child's nurse.
- (colloquial) A grandmother.
- (US, colloquial) A godmother.
- A female goat.
- A diminutive of the female given names Ann or Anne.
verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To serve as a nanny.
- (transitive, derogatory) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.
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Examples of "nanny" in Sentences
- I'm not a nanny or a mediator....
- The children and the nanny drowned.
- Also works occasionally as a nanny.
- She was a professional nanny though.
- The herd is led by a dominant nanny.
- I'm not supposed to be the nanny for this article.
- Will the ghost scare Rancid and Nanny out of their wits
- The parents then let the children keep the pictures and dismiss the nanny.
- I went back over some of the text and added Bob the Cucumber and Super Nanny.
- He is the last bastion of individual enterprise in the mechanized nanny state.