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grandmammy

grandmammy noun: grandmother.

Noun

grandmammy (plural grandmammies)

  1. (informal) Grandmother.
  2. (informal) Synonym of granddaddy (“something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind”).
    • […] and his orchestra as enchanting to dance to as it is, even if all this wasn't so superb, you'd want to go just to hear and see that grandmammy of all blues-singers who can still out-blue all of the younger ones, none other than Sophie Tucker.1938, Stadium concerts review, volume 21
    • […] that these administration signals took us students by surprise would be the grandmammy of all understatements. Folks were, depending on their inclinations, in turn suspicious, flattered, surprised, confused, or all of the above simultaneously […]2003, Stokely Carmichael, Michael Thelwell, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 222
    Synonyms:
    granddaddy

Synonyms of grandmammy

Forms of grandmammy

pluralgrandmammies

Origin of grandmammy

From grand- + mammy.

Questions about grandmammy

What does grandmammy mean?
Grandmammy means grandmother.
What part of speech is grandmammy?
Grandmammy is a noun.
What is the plural of grandmammy?
The plural of grandmammy is grandmammies.

Words near grandmammy in the dictionary

  1. grandmamas
  2. grandmamaw
  3. grandmamma
  4. grandmammas
  5. grandmammies
  6. grandmammy
  7. grandmas
  8. grandmaster
  9. grandmasters
  10. grandmastership
  11. grandmasterships

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