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Definitions: Nanny |
NannyNoun1. A woman who is the custodian of children. 2. Female goat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nanny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: NannySynonyms: nanny-goat (n), nurse (n), nursemaid (n), she-goat (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: nannies (labor). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The most famous fictional nanny is probably Mary Poppins but Fran Fine, played by Fran Drescher in The Nanny, is another contender. The BBC television drama series, Nanny, starred Wendy Craig in the title role, and ran from 1981 to 1983.
The word "nanny" is normally associated with women (originating from a pet name for a grandmother or female carer), but there are male nannies, though they often use a different name (e.g. childminder) for the job.
A governess, in constrast to a nanny, concentrates on teaching and training children.
See also: Au Pair, Net Nanny
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nanny."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Keeper | Protector, governor, duenna; guardian; governess; (teacher); nurse, nanny, babysitter, catsitter, dogsitter, bonne, ayah. |
Woman | Hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nanny |
| English words defined with "nanny": Nanny goat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nanny": NANNY HOUSE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We'll get your nanny. And to pay for it, I'll give up the Civil War Recreation Society I love so much. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Nasty Nanny is no good! (Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly; writing credit: Brian Comport; Maisie Mosco) My nanny said so. (Cedric the Entertainer Presents; writing credit: Charles Peattie; Mark Warren) For God's sake, shake me. Shake me like a British nanny! (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nanny and the Professor and the Phantom of the Circus (1973) Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972) Nanny and the Professor (1970) The Nanny (1965) Nanny Nanny Hey (1934) | |
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| "Nanny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.06% of the time. "Nanny" is used about 596 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.06% | 466 | 12,650 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.94% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Total | 100.00% | 596 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "nanny" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Nanny | Last name | 130 | 55,274 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "nanny": nanny goat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nanny": nanny-giraffe, nanny-goat, nanny-state, nanny-thin, nanny-users. | |
Ending with "nanny": ex-nanny. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nanny | 1,770 |
net nanny | 955 |
nanny job | 892 |
the nanny | 640 |
nanny cam | 371 |
nanny agency | 232 |
nanny services | 134 |
nanny diary | 94 |
nanny taylor | 70 |
nanny camera | 70 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nanny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kujdestare (duenna), dado (Ayah, baby sitter, childminder, nurse, nut, screw), dadë (nurse). (various references) | |
Arabic | مربية (nursemaid), جدة (grandma, grandmamma, grandmother, grandparent, granny, originality, recency). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | коза (goat, nanny goat), галено име за баба, бавачка (amah, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid). (various references) | |
Chinese | 保姆 (housekeeper). (various references) | |
Czech | chùva (child minder, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurse-maid). (various references) | |
Danish | ged (female goat, goat, nanny goat, she-goat). (various references) | |
Dutch | vrouwelijke geit (female goat, nanny goat, she-goat). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرستاربچه . (various references) | |
Finnish | naarasvuohi (female goat, nanny goat, she-goat), kuttu (female goat, nanny goat, she-goat). (various references) | |
French | nurse, nounou, mamie, mémé, bonne d'enfants. (various references) | |
German | kindermädchen (nannies, nurse, nursemaid, nursemaids, nursery nurse, nurses), kinderfrau (amah, mammy, nurse, nursery nurse). (various references) | |
Greek | νταντά (nursemaid), παραμάνα (nurse, safety pin, wet nurse). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מי קת (foster mother, wet nurse), מטפלת (nursemaid), אומ ת (foster mother, governess, nurse). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dada (amah, nursemaid). (various references) | |
Italian | bambinaia (babysitter, nurse, nursemaid). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 守役 (a nurse or nanny, guardian). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | もりやく (a nurse or nanny, guardian). (various references) | |
Manx | boandyr (nurse, nursemaid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calças de nanquim (nankin), ama-seca (dry nurse, nursery rhymes), ama sêca (dry nurse), ama de crianças, ama (mistress, nurse, nurse-bee). (various references) | |
Romanian | fatã de copil, bonã (nurse). (various references) | |
Russian | няня (amah, baby sitter, baby tender, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurserymaid). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koza (goat, nanny goat), dadilja (au pair, dry nurse, nursemaid). (various references) | |
Spanish | niñera (baby sitter, babysitter, babysitters, childminder, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid). (various references) | |
Swedish | barnsköterska (dry nurse, nurse). (various references) | |
Thai | พี่เลี้ยงเ"็ก (baby-minder, babysitter, baby-sitter, dry nurse, governess, nan). (various references) | |
Turkish | dadı (dry nurse, duenna, governess, nurse, nursemaid). (various references) | |
Ukranian | няня (dry nurse, nurse, nurserymaid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amassai, assae, assas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "nanny": hootenanny. (additional references) | |
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"Nanny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Annwn, antny, inany, lanny, Mananny, Naini, nandy, nani, Nanie, Naniel, nanino, nann, nanney, Nanni, nannick, nannie, nannied, nano, nanty, nanu, nany, Nanyo, navn, Nennie, neny, Ninky, ninnie, ninnin, nino, Ninoy, niny, nndy, nnn, nonnie, Nonny, Nony, nunny, Nyanna, nyanya, wanny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nanny" (pronounced na"nē) |
| 3 | -a" n ē | canny, cranny, Fanny, granny, uncanny. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-n-n-y" | |
-2 letters: any, nan, nay. | |
-3 letters: an, ay, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-n-n-y" | |
+2 letters: synanon, uncanny. | |
+3 letters: annoying, cannonry, funnyman, synanons. | |
+4 letters: annoyance, nonbinary, nonpaying, picaninny, sannyasin, uncannily. | |
+5 letters: annoyances, annoyingly, benignancy, consonancy, hootenanny, nonpayment, nonplaying, pickaninny, sannyasins, unmannerly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 6E 6E 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- -. -. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01101110 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a n n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 006E 006E 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4867808091 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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