What does nanny mean?
Nanny means A child's nurse..
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/ˈnæni/ · noun
A child's nurse..
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
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; […]
Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
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.
In real life, says a Democratic campaign aide, members of Congress are too nannied by staff to stride about hatching plots, one-on-one.
All politicians seem worried. After 40-plus years of being nannied by the EU they are now faced with having to stand on their own two feet.
Use nanny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nanny means A child's nurse..
Common synonyms include nanny goat, housemother, sylvester, nurse.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
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