Grandmother and Nanny

Grandmother

Grandmother noun - The mother of your father or mother.

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Nanny and grandmother are semantically related in grandma topic. In some cases you can use "Nanny" instead a noun "Grandmother".

Nearby Words: grandmotherly, grandmothering

Nanny noun - A girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children.

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Grandmother and nanny are semantically related in grandma topic. Sometimes you can use "Grandmother" instead a noun "Nanny".

Nearby Word: Nannie

beloved	beloved grandmother	beloved nanny
human	human grandmother	human nanny
old	old grandmother	old nanny
good	good grandmother	good nanny
Other adjectives: best, kindly, abusive, actual, great, evil, little, strict, famous, new, crazy, said, elderly, adoptive.

This is sometimes handwaved as being learned from a nanny or grandmother, since they tend to be rhymes no one has used in the last century.

Source: Ironic Nursery Tune
Nanny Ogg's grandmother (in Discworld) spied upon "secret male rituals what no woman ever saw." Turns out they just got drunk and danced around with horns on.

Source: Women's Mysteries
Finally, Snow White has enough of this and murders Cora, her step-grandmother, out of revenge for killing her mother (and throwing Snow's elderly nanny to her death For the Lulz).

Source: Big Screwed-Up Family

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