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granny
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun granny has 3 senses
- granny(n = noun.person) gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, nan, nanna - the mother of your father or mother; Array is a kind of grandparent
- granny(n = noun.person) Array - an old woman; Array is a kind of old woman
- granny(n = noun.artifact) granny knot - a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure; Array is a kind of flat knot, reef knot
has particulars: nan
CIDE DICTIONARY
granny, n.
A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
granny, n. (also grannie) (pl. -ies) colloq. grandmother.
Idiom
granny bond Brit. colloq. a form of National Savings certificate orig. available only to pensioners. granny flat (or annexe) Brit. part of a house made into self-contained accommodation for an elderly relative. granny knot a reef-knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure.
Etymology
obs. grannam for GRANDAM + -Y(2)
THESAURUS
granny
Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, beldam, conservative, crone, dad, dame, dodo, dowager, elder, fogy, fossil, frump, fud, fuddy-duddy, fuss, fuss-budget, fusser, fusspot, gammer, grandam, grandma, grandmother, grannam, great-grandmother, hag, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, old battle-ax, old believer, old crock, old dame, old dodo, old fogy, old girl, old granny, old lady, old liner, old maid, old man, old poop, old trot, old wife, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, traditionalist, trot, war-horse, witch
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