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1. A woman who is the custodian of children
   - nursemaid, nurse
    
2. Female goat
   - nanny-goat, she-goat
    
3. [Brit, informal] The mother of your father or mother
   - grandma, grandmother, granny [Brit], grannie [Brit], gran, nan [Brit, informal], nanna [Brit, informal], grandmama [archaic], nana [informal], grandmamma [archaic]

1. [informal] Treat with excessive indulgence
   - pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker [rare], baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge
    
2. Work or act as a nanny

Derived forms: nannied, nannies, nannying

Type of: adult female, caprine animal, do by, goat, grandparent, handle, keeper, treat, woman

Encyclopedia: Nanny, The