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nanny

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Noun

  1. A child's nurse.
  2. A grandmother.
  3. A godmother.
  4. A female goat.
  5. Synonym of sylvester (“device for pulling out pit props”).

Verb

  1. To serve as a nanny.
  2. To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

Proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Ann or Anne.

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