granny
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɡræn.i/
- Informal
:
abuelita
- After the school play, I always enjoy going home to my granny for her homemade cookies.
- granny panties
- old granny
- granny glasses
His Flyers looked like your granny had done them on a iPad.
- His Flyers looked like your granny had done them on a iPad.
- So also, my granny was unbelievably good at this as well.
- So will Brits be able to bin their face masks, hug their grannies, kiss their dates again?
- That's my dad, that's my mom, that's my granny.
- So I mean, this one's for you and then, you know, rub it on your hands because you don't want granny hands, right?
- And, and, and grannies and people who go way back to before that era.
Examples
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And we'd go to Oklahoma City to visit granny.
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Better phone your granny again.
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"Are you waiting for your granny or somebody to come pick you up?"
Fiction book (2000) -
I thought about my granny and then I got I gave you all these tears.
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So also, my granny was unbelievably good at this as well.
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Probably won't be too long because, you know, this, this granny needs to get to bed.
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My granny thought it would be too scarring.
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A granny means a very, very lot to me, because without a granny, life would be ghastly.
Fiction book (1990) -
One day, Red Riding Hood was helping her granny carry a new mirror home to her cottage in Wonder Wood.
Fiction book (1998) -
So she's, she's kind of our granny for the project.
Synonyms
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A mother of one of your parents
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A woman who is the mother of your father or mother
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1.0
A parent of your mother or father
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7.9
A friendly name used for your grandmother
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5.3
A woman who is the mother of your mother or father
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5.0
A loving old-fashioned word for the mother of your parent
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9.1
A personal name used for a grandmother or a respected older woman
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9.1
A child's word for grandmother used in Britain
5
9.9
A warm name for a grandmother in Jewish families
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2.0
The mother of your mother or father
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8.1
An old-fashioned, loving name for a child's grandmother
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7.2
A friendly name family members use for a grandmother
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9.7
A loving name for an older woman used like a grandmother
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1.0
An older woman who is the mother of one of your parents
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8.7
An older woman who is the mother of your parent
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2.9
A friendly name family members use for a grandmother
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9.9
An old-fashioned word for a grandmother
A loving name family members use for a grandmother
A grandmother in families with German or Dutch background
A grandmother who is called by the French word
Compounds
- Offensive
Leaving an elderly relative at a hospital or care home without arranging care
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Granny is a friendly short form of grandmother, from grand ('big') and mother. So granny is used as a warm, familiar name for your grandmother.