nanny

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See also Nanny

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnæni/
• Rhymes: -æni

Noun

nanny (plural nannies)

1. A child's nurse
2. (colloquial) A grandmother.
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) 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.

Synonyms

• (female goat): nanny goat

Translations

child's nurse

• Armenian: դայակ (hy) (dayak) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保姆 (cmn) (bǎomǔ)

• Czech: chůva (cs) f
• Dutch: kindermeisje (nl) n
• Esperanto: vanjo (eo)
• Finnish: lastenhoitaja (fi)
• French: nounou (fr) f, nourrice (fr) f, bonne d'enfants (fr) f
• German: Kindermädchen (de) n, Kinderfrau (de) f
• Greek: νταντά (el) (dadá) f 
• Italian: bambinaia (it) f, babysitter (it), tata (it) f
• Japanese: ナニー (ja) (nanī), 乳母 (ja) (うば, uba, おんば, onba, ちうば, chiuba, ちおも, chiomo, にゅうぼ, nyūbo, まま, mama, めのと, menoto)

• Kazakh: күтуші (kk) (kütüşi) 
• Korean: 유모 (ko) (yumo)
• Latvian: aukle (lv) f
• Macedonian: дадилка (mk) (dádilka) f
• Norwegian: barnepike (no) m
• Polish: niania (pl) f
• Portuguese: babá (pt) f
• Russian: няня (ru) (njánja) f , нянечка (ru) (njánečka) f , нянька (ru) (njánʹka) f 
• Spanish: niñera (es) f, nana (es) f (Latin America)
• Swedish: barnflicka (sv) c, barnpassare (sv)
• Turkish: dadı (tr), bakıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: нянька (uk) (njánʹka) f , няня (uk) (njánja) f 
• Volapük: (male or female) cilikälädan (vo), (female) cilijikälädan (vo)

female goat — see nanny goat

Derived terms

• nanny state
• manny (male nanny)

Verb

nanny (third-person singular simple present nannies, present participle nannying, simple past and past participle nannied)

1. (pejorative) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle. [From the mid-20th c.]