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grannies

grannies is the plural of granny /grannie.

grannies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of granny.

Meaning of granny

Verb

granny (third-person singular simple present grannies, present participle grannying, simple past and past participle grannied)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To be a grandmother.
  2. (informal, intransitive) To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.

See all 7 meanings of granny

Noun

grannies pl (plural only)

  1. (Canada, US, derogatory, plural, plural-only, slang) Granny panties.
    • And there I was, standing in the middle of the room, in my bra and undies, wearing a Burger King crown, balancing on one leg and praying. A peal of laughter arose from the rest of the girls, who were all clothed. ‘I knew she’d be wearing grannies!’ I heard someone say.2007, Karen Yampolsky, Falling out of Fashion, Headline Publishing Group, published 2009, →ISBN
    • “I’m just a little shocked.” / Monica laughs. “Shocked! You should have seen his face when he pulled down my shorts! He looks at me and says, ‘I wasn’t expecting a hot number like you to wear grannies.’ Then we have hot wild sex in the parking lot of the gym!” […] “What did Jena say?” / Monica...2011, Lexi Michaels, Time for a Fresh One, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 19

Phrases with grannies

Questions about grannies

What does grannies mean?
Grannies means granny panties.
What is grannies the plural of?
Grannies is the plural of granny /grannie.
What part of speech is grannies?
Grannies is a noun.

Words near grannies in the dictionary

  1. granmas
  2. grannam
  3. grannams
  4. grannie
  5. grannied
  6. grannies
  7. granniness
  8. grannom
  9. grannoms
  10. grannum
  11. grannums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grannies (page history and authors); granny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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