granny

English

granny (plural grannies)

(colloquial) A grandmother.
I'm going to be a granny.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
  Travelling with their granny, who seems more interested in her crossword puzzle than them, they bicker and fight in a futile bid to get her attention. Oh, the joys of travelling during the school holidays!
(colloquial, derogatory) An elderly woman.
There are too many grannies around here getting in the way.
(knots) A granny knot.
- 1977, Stephen King, Children of the Corn
  The suitcase was old. The brown leather was battered and scuffed. Two hanks of clothesline had been wrapped around it and tied in large, clownish grannies.
(farming, colloquial) An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.

colloquial: grandmother

Arabic: جِدَّة‎ (ar) f (jidda), تِيتَة‎ f (tīta)
Egyptian Arabic: تيتة‎ f (tēta)
South Levantine Arabic: تيتة‎ f (tēta)
Belarusian: бабу́ля f (babúlja), бабу́ня f (babúnja), бабу́ся f (babúsja)
Bulgarian: ба́ба (bg) f (bába), ба́бче n (bábče)
Catalan: iaia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 奶奶 (zh) (nǎinǎi, nǎinai)
Czech: babička (cs) f, bábinka f, babča (cs) f
Dutch: oma (nl) f, (Netherlands) opoe (nl) f, (Belgium) bomma (nl) f
Finnish: mummi (fi)
French: mémé (fr) f, mamie (fr) f
German: Oma (de) f, Omi (de) f
Hungarian: nagyi (hu)
Italian: nonna (it), nonnina f
Japanese: お婆ちゃん (おばあちゃん, obā-chan), お婆さん (ja) (おばあさん, obā-san)
Korean: 할머님 (halmeonim)
Macedonian: баба (mk) f (baba)
Norwegian: besta (no) f
Polish: babunia (pl) f, babusia f
Portuguese: vó (pt) f, vovó (pt) f, vovozinha f
Russian: ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), бабу́ся (ru) f (babúsja), бабу́ля (ru) f (babúlja), ба́ба (ru) f (bába), бабу́ня (ru) f (babúnja) (regional)
Scots: gran, grannie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ба́ка f
Roman: báka (sh) f
Slovak: babička (sk) f
Slovene: bábica (sl) f
Spanish: abuelita (es) f, yaya (es) f
Turkish: nine (tr)
Ukrainian: бабу́ся (uk) f (babúsja), бабу́ня (uk) f (babúnja), ба́бця (uk) f (bábcja), бабу́ля f (babúlja)

colloquial, derogatory: an elderly woman

Bulgarian: стари́ца (bg) f (staríca)
Czech: stařena (cs) f
Dutch: besje (nl) f
Finnish: mummo (fi), mummeli (fi)
French: mémé (fr) f, vieille (fr) f
German: Alte (de) f
Hungarian: anyó (hu), anyóka (hu)
Irish: seanbhean f, seanchailleach f
Macedonian: ба́ба (mk) f (bába)
Polish: babka (pl) f, staruszka (pl) f, baba (pl) f
Portuguese: velha (pt) f
Romanian: babă (ro) f
Russian: ба́ба (ru) f (bába), ба́бка (ru) f (bábka), бабу́ся (ru) f (babúsja), бабу́ля (ru) f (babúlja), ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), стару́ха (ru) f (starúxa), стару́шка (ru) f (starúška)

granny (not comparable)

(informal) typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women.
granny dress; granny glasses

granny (third-person singular simple present grannies, present participle grannying, simple past and past participle grannied)

(informal, intransitive) To be a grandmother. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
(informal, intransitive) To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.

granny (plural grannies)