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  • noun A remarkably capable and energetic nanny.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ nanny

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Examples

  • In fact, a lot of cases involving apparently decent white middle-class couples being turned down have at root the fact that the potential parents have been deemed unable to appreciate how to raise a traumatised child for whom all the normal "supernanny" rules do not apply.

    Parents who adopt abused children hampered by woeful lack of support Tracy McVeigh 2010

  • Those who say that are full of crap I'll be nice w/ the language & need to stop watching "supernanny" and "out-of-control teens" talk shows and open their eyes.

    Judge Mock: White Supremacist? Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • In fact, a lot of cases involving apparently decent white middle-class couples being turned down have at root the fact that the potential parents have been deemed unable to appreciate how to raise a traumatised child for whom all the normal "supernanny" rules do not apply.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • The only thing that it ever occurs to Democrats to do is "tax the rich" and try to turn government into some sort of enormous, intrusive, bureaucratic, supernanny.

    Obama: 'Act now' on health care 2009

  • COSTELLO: Also, mom and dad can get advice on how to parent, from supernanny Jo Frost.

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009 2009

  • The government clearly haven't been listening to that supernanny woman because by being so selective and religionist how else do I describe it?

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Advice to parents in recent years has been far too obsessed with ideas such as the naughty step and time-out, according to two psychologists who have written a book as an antidote to the supernanny approach.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • The government clearly haven't been listening to that supernanny woman because by being so selective and religionist how else do I describe it?

    Religionist? 2008

  • The question for the moment is whether Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke now qualifies as a "supernanny."'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Ben Bernanke: Supernanny? 2008

  • The question for the moment is whether Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke now qualifies as a 'supernanny.'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Ben Bernanke: Supernanny? 2008

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