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Meaning of tannie | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

An older female authority figure.

South-Africa

Examples

“Normal biscuit cookies like the tannies, the Afrikaans aunties, made, but liberally laced with marijuana.”
“I had done the same as a student at outpatients, listening to a succession of tannies with their hair in curlers[…]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

tannigen Tannin tanninbush Tanning tanning bed tanning butter

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