Babysitter

Definitions

1. A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
2. A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.
   derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.”

“He said he did not want⟳ to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men.”

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