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granddaddiest

granddaddiest adjective: biggest and most impressive; most significant.

Adjective

granddaddiest

  1. (informal) Biggest and most impressive; most significant.
    • “It’s the grand-daddiest (bleep-bleepin’) (bleep-bleep) album you’ve ever seen,” he [Ted Nugent] said of it.1978 August 19, Tom Somach, “Life is not a spectator sport for Motor City’s Ted Nugent”, in The Morning Call, number 96
    • As sure as God made little green apples, spring arrived on March 21. It would have arrived with or without the groundhog’s prediction, but what would the TV media have done for news if it hadn’t been for Phil, the grand-daddiest groundhog of all time.1981 February 1, “In celebration of groundhog”, in The Argus, Rock Island, Ill., section “Sunday Argus Quad-Citian”, page 2

Examples of granddaddiest in a sentence

  • Certain auras surround most great bowl games and the titanic 1963 USC-UW struggle might just be the “granddaddiest of them all.”1986 December 31, John R. Olson, “Comeback glory soothes ’63 pain”, in The Capital Times, Madison, Wis., page 15:
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its six-year streak with an award for public service, the granddaddiest of the Pulitzers.1990 April 15, Gene Zipperlen, “A small paper receives a big honor by providing an enormous service”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort...
  • It was huge, huge, the hugest oldest granddaddiest brookie this river had ever coughed Bunce’s way.2006, Joseph Harry Silber, The Ecstasies of Willaert, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 237:
  • In 600 steps, you’ll encounter the granddaddiest of all Studio City landmarks, known as the Sportsmen’s Lodge.2015, Paul Haddad, 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 52 Walking Adventures, Santa Monica Press, →ISBN:

Forms of granddaddiest

alternative formgrand-daddiest

Origin of granddaddiest

From granddaddy + -est.

Questions about granddaddiest

What does granddaddiest mean?
Granddaddiest means biggest and most impressive; most significant.
How do you use granddaddiest in a sentence?
Certain auras surround most great bowl games and the titanic 1963 USC-UW struggle might just be the “granddaddiest of them all.”
What part of speech is granddaddiest?
Granddaddiest is an adjective.

Words near granddaddiest in the dictionary

  1. grandchildren
  2. grandcousin
  3. grandcousins
  4. granddad
  5. granddaddies
  6. granddaddiest
  7. granddaddy
  8. granddads
  9. granddam
  10. granddams
  11. granddaughter

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