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English
Etymology
From granny + sit, modelled on babysit.
Verb
granny-sit (third-person singular simple present granny-sits, present participle granny-sitting, simple past and past participle granny-sat or (uncommon) granny-sitted)
- (informal, transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend an elderly female relative at home.
2009, Chrissie Manby, Running Away From Richard: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.
2010, Naeem Inayatullah, Autobiographical International Relations: I, IR, page 21: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.
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