nannyingn.
/ˈnanɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnæniɪŋ/ The practice or a process of working as a nanny or treating someone in the manner of a nanny; (also) the result of this.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > care for or looking after > excessive care or protection
overcare1599
mollycoddling1847
overprotection1901
nursemaiding1924
overprotectiveness1931
nannyism1959
nannying1969
nanniness1973
1969 Guardian 11 June 11/7 Professional women get none of this obligatory nannying: their main grudge is inequalities of opportunity rather than of pay.
1984 E. Jong Parachutes & Kisses viii. 144 Only in England was nannying still considered an honorific profession.
1989 L. Deighton Spy Line i. 13 Irritable at being treated like a child, although by then I should have become used to Werner's nannying.
1999 S. Orbach Impossibility of Sex (2000) 34 At seventeen she had come to London, did a bit of nannying, then strayed into the music scene.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
nannyingadj.
/ˈnanɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈnæniɪŋ/ Characteristic of a nanny or the work of a nanny; overprotective, patronizing, interfering (esp. with reference to the government or some other institution).
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1963 Economist 6 July 41/3 Labour..would produce a less compulsively nannying piece of legislation.
1988 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 18/1 Mrs Currie's sense of political self-preservation should now persuade her to give the rest of us a seasonal rest from nannying harangues.
1999 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 30 Jan. c5/3 The song..Wide Prairie has been banned from television and radio in Britain, a move Paul McCartney calls the ‘nannying and playsafe attitude that is infecting the record business’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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