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Nanny vs Supernanny - What's the difference?

nanny | supernanny |

As nouns the difference between nanny and supernanny

is that nanny is a child's nurse while supernanny is a remarkably capable and energetic nanny.

As a verb nanny

is to treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

As a proper noun Nanny

is {{given name|female|diminutive=Ann}} or Anne.

nanny

English

Noun

(nannies)
  • A child's nurse.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 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.}}
  • (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, page 159:
    • 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;
  • * 2005 , Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History , Greystone Books (2005), ISBN 9781553651147, page 103:
    • Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
  • * 2013 , Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More , Voyageur Press (2013), ISBN 9780760342367, 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.

    Synonyms

    * (female goat) nanny goat

    Derived terms

    * nanny state * manny (male nanny)

    Verb

  • (pejorative) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle.

    • supernanny

    English

    Noun

    (supernannies)
  • A remarkably capable and energetic nanny.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 16, author=Sara London, title=Children’s Books, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=With lessons in good behavior all but forgotten in many homes, must teachers now be supernannies ? }}
  • * 2009 , Julie Anne Taddeo, Ken Dvorak, The tube has spoken: reality TV and history (page 1)
    • Three decades later reality TV shows about supernannies and wife swapping take place in a postfeminist society in which families farm out parenting and domestic duties but nevertheless still cling to traditional notions of motherhood.