Nanny vs Servant - What's the difference?
nanny | servant |
A child's nurse.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 (colloquial) A grandmother.
A female goat.
* 1983 , Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed , Bison Books (2002), ISBN 0803264216,
* 2005 , Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History , Greystone Books (2005), ISBN 9781553651147,
* 2013 , Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More , Voyageur Press (2013), ISBN 9780760342367,
(pejorative) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.
One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
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As a proper noun nanny
is or anne.As a noun servant is
one who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation as opposed to a slave.As a verb servant is
(obsolete) to subject.nanny
English
Noun
(nannies)citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
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- Breeding is a consuming goal, and the ascendance of the sex drive is nearly as apparent in the behavior of a mountain goat billy. So given over is he to following and defending a succession of nannies as he searches for one in heat (estrus), he loses interest in food altogether;
page 103:
- Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
page 28:
- A farmer friend keeps a video camera in the barn so she can turn on her goat cam and observe her animals at any time of the day or night. A baby monitor picks up the sounds of a nanny' when she goes into labor—if the ' nanny is one who changes the usual pitch of her voice or nervously bleats during kidding.
