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Definition of Nannie
1. nanny [n -S] - See also: nanny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nannie
Literary usage of Nannie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"Tune—"My nannie, O." BEHIND yon hills where Lugar flows, 'Mang moors and mosses
many, O, The wintry sun the day has clos'd, And I'll awa to nannie, ..."
2. Friendship's Offering, and Winter's Wreath.: And Winter's Wreath: a by Thomas Kibble Hervey, Leitch Ritchie (1829)
"O my nannie, My dear little nannie, My sweet little ... nannie; There ne'er was
a flower, In garden or bower, Like auld Joe Nicholson's bonny nannie. ..."
3. Masterpieces of British Literature: Ruskin: Macaulay: Brown: Tennyson by Scuddre, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 (1895)
"But oh, if he's faithless, and minds na his nannie, Flow still between us, ...
MY nannie 'S AWA'. Now in her green mantle blithe Nature arrays, ..."
4. Nature in Verse: A Poetry Reader for Children by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1895)
"Sunny-eyed nannie, What did you see ? " Saw the fays sewing Green leaves on a
... Listening nannie, What did you hear ? " Heard the rain asking A rose to ..."
5. Marguerite by Mary Jane Holmes (1890)
"Why, nannie," he said, dismounting from his horse as she came up to him, " what
is the matter, •nd why are you running so this hot morning? ..."
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