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tannie - What does it mean?

Definition of 'tannie'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (South Africa) An older female authority figure.
  • * 2008 , Chris Cocks, Out of Action (page 135)
  • Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies , the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.
  • * 2011 , Charles Kingsley, From Afrikaner to Zebra – A Vet’s Life (page 81)
  • I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers

    Synonyms

    * antie ----