grandcat
English
WOTD – 12 April 2017
A girl and her cat
Etymology
From grand- + cat, by analogy with grandchild.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæn(d)kæt/, /-kat/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæn(d)kæt/
- Hyphenation: grand‧cat
Noun
grandcat (plural grandcats)
- (humorous, endearing) A cat owned by one's child, having a status comparable to a grandchild.
- 2004, Ellen Goodman, “A Sense of Place”, in Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
- This cat—my daughter's cat and my grandcat—arrived here weeks ago, caged and collared and thoroughly citified.
- 2006 July 1, Barbie Root, “July 2006”, in Life After Katrina: A Family's Story of Trial and Triumph, [Mustang, Okla.]: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, published 2009, →ISBN, page 325:
- I'm heading to GR tomorrow to bring the cat to Mom/Maurice for a couple of weeks. I'm heading to Tokyo the week of July 11, so they have to take care of their grandcat!
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