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In some senses, nanny is marked as derogatory, colloquial, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
nanny
/ˈnæni/
noun 5verb 2name 1
Collocations
3(noun.)
ADJ
live-in | qualified, trained
PREP
~ to
My aunt works as a nanny to three young boys in London.
Definitions
noun
1
A child's nurse.
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
2
A grandmother.
3
A godmother.
4
A female goat.
Breeding is a consuming goal, and the ascendance of the sex drive is nearly as apparent in the behavior of a mountain goat billy. So given over is he to following and defending a succession of nannies as he searches for one in heat (estrus), he loses interest in food altogether; […]
Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
5
Synonym of sylvester (“device for pulling out pit props”).
verb
1
To serve as a nanny.
2
To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.
In real life, says a Democratic campaign aide, members of Congress are too nannied by staff to stride about hatching plots, one-on-one.
All politicians seem worried. After 40-plus years of being nannied by the EU they are now faced with having to stand on their own two feet.
name
1
A diminutive of the female given names Ann or Anne.
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Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a le
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Breeding is a consuming goal, and the ascendance of the sex drive is nearly as apparent in the behavior of a mountain goat billy. So given over is he to following and defending a succession of nannies
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Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
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In real life, says a Democratic campaign aide, members of Congress are too nannied by staff to stride about hatching plots, one-on-one.
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All politicians seem worried. After 40-plus years of being nannied by the EU they are now faced with having to stand on their own two feet.
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I'm Tom's nanny.
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