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granny-sitting

granny-sitting is the present participle and gerund of granny-sit.

Meaning of granny-sit

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)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To watch or tend an elderly female relative at home.
    • 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

Questions about granny-sitting

What is granny-sitting the present participle and gerund of?
Granny-sitting is the present participle and gerund of granny-sit.

Words near granny-sitting in the dictionary

  1. granny-sit
  2. granny-sits
  3. granny-sitted
  4. granny-sitter
  5. granny-sitters
  6. granny-sitting
  7. grannybush
  8. Grannygate
  9. grannying
  10. grannyish
  11. grannyvine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: granny-sitting (page history and authors); granny-sit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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