词汇 | nanny |
词源 | nanny [E18th] Both for a person taking care of young children and in nanny goat, this is a pet form of the name Ann. The nanny state is found from the 1950s. Nan (1940s) is an abbreviation of nanny and a child’s pronunciation of gran. |
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