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

  • If a nanny is of use to their project, she will be enlisted.
  • Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has used the phrase "nanny state."
  • When you're at work, these strangers you call their nanny are the ones interacting with your kids.
  • Like they have their own place separate from the Donald and his latest, as if the nanny is the mommy?
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • "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.

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