yayan.
/ˈjaja/, U.S. /ˈjɑˌjɑ/, Philippine English /ˈjɑˌjɑ/ Philippine English.
A woman employed by a family to look after a child, or a sick or elderly person. Also as a familiar form of address.
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1973 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 20/2 Filipino families are large—eight or nine children are not uncommon—and the wealthier usually allot one room and one servant, called a yaya, to each child.
1987 Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 14 Aug. 15/2 She took her first job as a live-in yaya..caring for a small child.
1998 BusinessWorld (Philippines) 4 Dec. 27 He did discuss a whole lot about his family..including Yaya Conching, driver Mang Binoy.
2015 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 18 Dec. My mother took charge of the kitchen and my mother-in-law supervised the yayas.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1973- to have one's foot on native heath
- to have one's foot on one's native heath
- to have one's forth
- to have one's garret unfurnished
- to have one's guts about one's ears
- to have one's hand in
- to have one's hand in the till
- to have one's hand on another halfpenny
- to have one's hand on one's halfpenny
- to have one's hands free
- to have one's hands full
- to have one's hat chalked
- to have one's head in the clouds
- to have one's head screwed on right
- to have one's head screwed on the right way
- to come to good pass
- to come to grapnel
- to come to grasp
- to come to grief
- to come to gripes
- to come to grips
- to come to hand
- to come to hand blows
- to come to handgrips
- to come to handicuffs