tannie
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 6
Definition of tannie
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(South-Africa)An older female authority figure.
“Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies, the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.”
“I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers[…]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Afrikaans tannie (“auntie”), diminutive of tante (“aunt”), from Dutch tante (“aunt”).
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