nanny shop

English

Noun

nanny shop (plural nanny shops)

  1. (slang, archaic) A brothel.
    • 2015, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory, page 163:
      I didn't think he'd be spending any money on a girl that night—he had the rail-carriage-glazed look of a tourist and the wide eyes of a man who's never been in a nanny shop before and just wants to take it all in.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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