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tannie ‎(plural tannies)

(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 […]

tannie ‎(plural tannies)