nanny
see also: Nanny
Pronunciation
Nanny
Proper noun
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see also: Nanny
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈnæni/
nanny (plural nannies)
- A child's nurse.
- (colloquial) A grandmother.
- (US, colloquial) A godmother.
- A female goat.
- 1983, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, Bison Books (2002), ISBN 0803264216, page 159 ↗:
- 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; […]
- 2005, Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History, Greystone Books (2005), ISBN 9781553651147, page 103 ↗:
- Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
- 2013, Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More, Voyageur Press (2013), ISBN 9780760342367, page 28 ↗:
- A farmer friend keeps a video camera in the barn so she can turn on her goat cam and observe her animals at any time of the day or night. A baby monitor picks up the sounds of a nanny when she goes into labor—if the nanny is one who changes the usual pitch of her voice or nervously bleats during kidding.
- 1983, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, Bison Books (2002), ISBN 0803264216, page 159 ↗:
- (female goat) nanny goat
- (child's nurse) housemother
- nanna
- nannification
- French: nounou, nourrice, bonne d'enfants
- German: Kindermädchen, Kinderfrau
- Italian: bambinaia, babysitter, tata
- Portuguese: babá
- Russian: ня́ня
- Spanish: niñera, nana (Latin America)
nanny (nannies, present participle nannying; past and past participle nannied)
- (intransitive, transitive) To serve as a nanny.
- (transitive, pejorative) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle. [From the mid-20th c.]
Nanny
Proper noun
- A female given name or Anne.
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