tannie

From Afrikaans tannie (“auntie”), from Dutch tante (“aunt”).

tannie (plural tannies)

1. (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 […]

• antie

• annite, ante in, innate, nanite

tannie (plural tannies)

1. Diminutive of tante (“aunt”)