tannie
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Etymology edit
From Afrikaans tannie (“auntie”), diminutive of tante (“aunt”), from Dutch tante (“aunt”).
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tannie (plural tannies)
- (South Africa) An older female authority figure.
- 2008, Chris Cocks, Out of Action, page 135:
- Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies, the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.
- 2011, Charles Kingsley, From Afrikaner to Zebra – A Vet’s Life, page 81:
- I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers […]
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tannie (plural tannies)
- Diminutive of tante (“aunt”)