What is "gramma"

Usage examples of "gramma".

They watched a little flurry of coming and going before them-a parrotfish, then a royal gramma and a queen trigger, then the lookdowns reappeared, gliding past.

Mom said that Granpa and Gramma quit the Congregational Church in Scarborough at the same time Gramma decided to quit teaching, but once, about a year ago, when Aunt Flo was up for a visit from her home in Salt Lake City, George and Buddy, listening at the register as Mom and her sister sat up late, talking, heard quite a different story.

He supposed he could make Gramma one of her special frozen dinners.

His personal earthen property, on which he might have grazed these animals, consisted of one irrigated acre around his house, five sageland acres in the Coyote Arroyo section of Milagro, one and seven-tenths acres of sageland and sparse gramma grass near the north-south highway, and the seven-tenths of an acre on the west side where his beans were growing.

Still, you could make out the old irrigation ditches which had once fed the larger and still-fenced bean- and alfalfa fields, dry and dead now but for tumbleweed and numerous yellow bun-shaped snakeweed bushes and sparse tufts of gramma grass.

It suggests the ultimate aircraft carrier, twenty stories tall and three miles long, anchored in a sea of gramma grass.

Every blade of gramma grass, with its shining bronze-tufted seed head, had significance for her.

She came by herself, she hadn't a good word for me or anybody else, she was drinkin more'n ever and looked like death's Gramma most days, but she came n she stayed n she did her jigsaw puzzles n she went down - all by herself now - n collected her shells on the beach, just like she always had.

It reminded me of gramma, do you remember when the law came up that time after Pete and there guns flew out of there hands and grammie just laffed and laffed.

The fact that Gramma herself thought Jeff was much too young to be a husband had been neither here nor there.

Gramma, the children, the baby, the older girl with her bad leg, the new girl with her vacant mind .

Gramma, the children, the baby, the older girl with her bad leg, the new girl with her vacant mind .

Gramma over in Sneedville puts him one notch above the Crocodile Hunter.

Gramma Hague, who used to make the best pies in Tarker's Mills, has died of a heart attack, Willie Harrington, who is ninety-two, slipped on the ice in front of his little house on Ball Street late in November and broke his hip, but the library has received a nice bequest in the will of a wealthy summer resident, and next year construction will begin on the children's wing that has been talked about in town meeting since time out of mind.