nanny

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person employed to care for a family's children; a female goat

   The nanny took the children to the park each afternoon.

An 18th-century word, originally a child's or pet form of the female name Ann/Nan, used as a generic name for a nurse; the 'female goat' sense (nanny goat) is by analogy.

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