granny-sit

English

Etymology

granny +‎ sit, modelled on babysit.

Verb

granny-sit (third-person singular simple present granny-sits, present participle granny-sitting, simple past and past participle granny-sat)

1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend an elderly relative at home.
   • 2009, Chrissie Manby, Running Away From Richard:

     I know he'll have you stitched up with pre-nuptial agreements but if he's prepared to pay you five thousand bucks a day just to granny-sit, then being his wife has got to be worth at least double that.

   • 2010, Naeem Inayatullah, Autobiographical International Relations: I, IR, page 21:

     Eventually she called a neighbour to granny-sit and followed the ambulance down to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, but she didn't see my father alive again I don't think.

Derived terms

• granny-sitter