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grandad
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Grandad is a male grandparent. Grandad or Granddad may also refer to: "Grandad" (song) , a UK #1 song by Clive Dunn Grandad (TV series) , a British TV series (1979–1984) starring Clive Dunn as Charlie 'Grandad' Quick Grandad (Only Fools and Horses) , a ...
WordNet
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n. the father of your father or mother [syn: grandfather , gramps , granddad , granddaddy , grandpa ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also granddad , 1819, from grand (adj.) + dad . Grandaddy is attested from 1769; figuratively (in grandaddy of all _____ ) from 1956. Grand dada attested from 1690s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of granddad English)
Usage examples of grandad.
She told the clerk what she wanted: two fifths of Grandad, a sixpack of beer, two packs of cigarettes, some chips, some mixed nuts, some alka-seltzer, a good cigar.
The colours spoke to her of custard, of blancmange a leaden meat tea served on pastel plates, the desiccation of a proletarian wake for some tyrant grandad, or some pub parrot of a granny, mad these thirty years.
Pennock had learned of his moving grandad into Kate's but had no idea Bostwick was inside the wagon.
Pennock had learned of his moving grandad Into Kate's but had no idea Bostwick was inside the wagon.
One of my grandads lives in Spain and the other one died before I was born!
Gran Masha had a bowl of hog-clam chowder and hot soda bread, while Grandad had a platter of local oysterish creatures that he called eisire and gobbled raw, winking at Gran all the while and sending very odd thoughts at her.
The grandfather paradox ceases to be paradoxical, because grandad will be (or will have been) killed in a parallel world, not in the original one.
No-one takes you sheriously when you’ve got no teeths, they shay “Shit down by the fire, grandad, and have shome shoo—“ Cohen looked sharply at Rincewind.