supernanny

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ nanny

Noun[edit]

supernanny (plural supernannies)

  1. A remarkably capable and energetic nanny.
    • 2007 September 16, Sara London, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times[1]:
      With lessons in good behavior all but forgotten in many homes, must teachers now be supernannies?
    • 2009, Julie Anne Taddeo, Ken Dvorak, The tube has spoken: reality TV and history, page 1:
      Three decades later reality TV shows about supernannies and wife swapping take place in a postfeminist society in which families farm out parenting and domestic duties but nevertheless still cling to traditional notions of motherhood.