nannie

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nannie (plural nannies)

  1. Alternative form of nanny (female goat)
    • 1935, The Southwestern Sheep and Goat Raiser, volume 6, page 77:
      [] one of her lambs herding the kid away from the nannie, while the ewe's other two lambs were nursing the nannie.
  2. Alternative form of nanny (grandmother)
    • 1971, Bertha E. Mahony Miller, The Horn Book Magazine, volume 47, page 588:
      She was also two years older than my gentle uncle, who was a favorite with both my mother and my nannie []