grandmomma
English
Noun
grandmomma (plural grandmommas)
- (US, colloquial) Grandmother.
- 1948 September 1, “News of the Territory”, in The Exhibitor, page NT-4:
- There’s been an “accent on youth” where exhibitors are concerned, and Nat Bernstein, owner Bernstein Circuit, followed suit. […] But, the mommas and grandmommas figured the accent was in the wrong place, so they suggested something just for them on the same par, with prizes as well.
- 1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:
- No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.
- 1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:
- We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.
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