granny-sit

verb

To watch or tend an elderly female relative at home.

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Meanings

verbgranny-sit (third-person singular simple present granny-sits, present participle granny-sitting, simple past and past participle granny-sat or (uncommon) granny-sitted)

present singular third person granny-sits · participle present granny-sitting · participle past granny-sat · past granny-sat · participle past uncommon granny-sitted · past uncommon granny-sitted

  1. ambitransitiveinformalTo 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
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    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

Origin

From granny + sit, modelled on babysit.

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Chicago

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