Definition of "nanny" []

• A children's nurse. (noun)

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• "Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has used the phrase "nanny state.""
• "I hope for every drunken nanny (that's what we call the nanny in my big sis's comment), there is a Laura and that she will be walking down your cul de sac soon and knowcking on your door."
• "Like they have their own place separate from the Donald and his latest, as if the nanny is the mommy?"