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granny-sit en · VERB

Etymology

From granny + sit, modelled on babysit.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, informal) To watch or tend an elderly female relative at home.
   • Eventually she called a neighbour to granny-sit and followed the ambulance down to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, but she didn't see my father alive again I don't think. 2010, Naeem Inayatullah, Autobiographical International Relations: I, IR, page 21:
   • I know he'll have you stitched up with pre-nuptial agreements but if he's prepared to pay you five thousand bucks a day just to granny-sit, then being his wife has got to be worth at least double that. 2009, Chrissie Manby, Running Away From Richard:

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Deriveds

granny-sitter