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supernanny en · NOUN

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Etymology

From super- + nanny.

Meanings

1. A remarkably capable and energetic nanny.
   • Three decades later reality TV shows about supernannies and wife swapping take place in a postfeminist society in which families farm out parenting and domestic duties but nevertheless still cling to traditional notions of motherhood. 2009, Julie Anne Taddeo, Ken Dvorak, The tube has spoken: reality TV and history, page 1:
   • With lessons in good behavior all but forgotten in many homes, must teachers now be supernannies? 2007 September 16, Sara London, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times:

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