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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
/ ˈnænɪ /
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
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Example Sentences
UNO puts such an onus on smoking students that it ultimately seems like a bully, even more than a nanny.
The Louisiana university has turned into a nanny state, issuing a campus smoking ban of dubious legality.
Now, at the University of New Orleans, we have a “nanny university.”
She hired a full-time nanny only when it became unavoidable as the family made plans to travel to Australia for a royal tour.
He moved to Los Angeles straight out of college at 22, but the only steady work he found was as a male nanny.
"I should say Nanny Pulsifer would naturally lose weight," I answered.
With all the disadvantage of her little feet, Nanny managed best; where she could not walk, she jumped.
It is true that Nanny was a slattern, but only because she married into slavery.
But pity poor Nanny Coutts, who took her chains to bed with her.
But Nanny visited no one, and so Jess only knew her by hearsay.
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