nanny /ˈnani 
/ ▸ noun (plural nannies)
1 a person, in particular a woman, employed to look after a child in its own home. ▪ a person or institution regarded as interfering and overprotective.
2 informal one's grandmother. 3 (in full nanny goat) a female goat. ▸ verb ( nannies, nannying, nannied)
1 [no object] work as a nanny: she cooked, cleaned, and nannied for a family in California.
2 [with object] be overprotective towards: stop nannying us! We are capable of dealing with our own lives.
– DERIVATIVES nannyish /ˈnaniɪʃ / adjective – ORIGIN early 18th century (in nanny goat): pet form of the given name Ann. The verb dates from the 1950s.
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