Definition of "nannying" []

• Present participle of nanny. (verb)

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• "My only problem is that at time of writing I haven't had much chance to explore the world in the freestyle way I love; I'm still about an hour into a linear, inescapable "nannying" session with characters explaining the controls and plot."
• "I thought they'd spent the last few years accusing Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman of too much finger-wagging and "nannying", telling us what do when it comes to smoking, drinking, bringing up our children."
• "On the taxes proposed she said, "Those concerned by our wish list's ` nanny state 'implications might helpfully redirect their focus to the many unseen measures intentionally adopted by the food industry to shape our behaviour … It seems that without our knowledge or consent we are subject to the pervasive' nannying 'activities of industry.""