NANNY
What does "NANNY" mean?
A person, usually a woman, employed to care for a family's children in their home.
Meanings
- A woman hired to look after young children. The nanny walked the twins to the park every afternoon.
- A grandmother (chiefly British informal). We spent the whole summer at my nanny's house by the sea. informal
- A female goat (nanny goat). The nanny butted the fence whenever the feed bucket appeared.
Did you know?
- The phrase 'nanny state', mocking overprotective government, was popularized by Conservative MP Iain Macleod in The Spectator in 1965.
Word origin
From 'Nanny', a familiar pet form of the name 'Ann', applied to nurses and grandmothers; later extended to the female goat.
Remember it
NANNY = two pairs of N's hugging a Y, like two little hands holding a child between them.
A little poem
She is not theirs, and yet each scraped-up knee
she kisses like the world depends on three.
couplet
Wordplay
- I asked the goat to babysit the kids. Turns out a nanny is a nanny either way.
What it teaches
The hands that raise a child are not always the ones that named it.
Quick facts
What does NANNY mean?
A person, usually a woman, employed to care for a family's children in their home.
Is NANNY a valid word?
Yes — NANNY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NANNY?
NANNY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does NANNY come from?
From 'Nanny', a familiar pet form of the name 'Ann', applied to nurses and grandmothers; later extended to the female goat.
What can NANNY teach us?
The hands that raise a child are not always the ones that named it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.