Noun: tannie
| Singular | tannie |
| Plural | tannies |
Sample Sentences
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Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies, the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana. [2008, Chris Cocks, Out of Action, page 135:]
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I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers[…] [2011, Charles Kingsley, From Afrikaner to Zebra – A Vet’s Life, page 81:]
Nouns inflected like tannie
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Afrikaans tannie (“auntie”), diminutive of tante (“aunt”), from Dutch tante (“aunt”). See: Dutch Nouns '
tante'.