What is "grannie"

Usage examples of "grannie".

Children hardly old enough to be wearing knives, tooeven graybeards and grannies.

My grannie is always after my father for being in trade instead of bettering himself.

Here and there, mostly in protected College yards and side streets, the oldest surviving domestic architecture still leaned, ancient wattle-and-daub and exposed stud framing held up like paralytic grannies by stronger, newer relatives on either side.

Like having no cousins or uncles or aunts or grannies or grampas because Marna had come up an orphan in foster care with bad people who beat on her like a drum, she said.

The grannies have watched me heal, and I’ve watched them lay pains on a stone, and neither of us learned how the other did it.

They never expected to have old grannies spitting on them in their own city, sarge.

Even the old dears, the sainted grannies, even the twisted relicts who lurk like pub parrots in the corner of the lounge they've all done it, God damn it.

I peer past him into an unfathomable atmosphere of silenced grannies, scorched wives and scourged daughters.

Mali had gathered the herbs she said she needed back in the summer, and as usual the village grannies came to help with the birthing.

If that entailed killing Lonnies before they could kill her Grannies, so be it.

Dargow was smart enough to know that mixing a squad of Grannies with the Lonnies would only add to the confusion already working for her, so his threat could be considered idle.

From comm talk she had listened in on, Gweanvin gathered the Grannies were claiming an overwhelming victory, which was not surprising.

Thanks to the rules under which they fought, the Lonnies and Grannies were usually so evenly matched in combat that any unanticipated success or failure could set a trend that would hold throughout a battle.

Then you took the money I got from talking sweet to faded grannies and fancy ladies and you blew it all on bad land deals.

Scare some of those old widow grannies near to death to find someone creeping around their prize silver.