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Definition of Grandaddy
1. [n -DIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandaddy
Literary usage of Grandaddy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The Theatrical grandaddy.—Girl Waiters.—Erring Women.—The Death of a Magdalen.—Doffing
the Sock and Buskin—Homeward Bound—Travelers' Miseries—Funny Western ..."
2. Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris, Arthur Burdett Frost, J. M. Condé, Frank Ver Beck (1905)
"He must 'a' been a grandaddy long 'bout de time dat my great- grandaddy's
great-grandaddy ... Howsomever dat mought be, ol' grandaddy Cricket wuz on han', ..."
3. The Slaveholder Abroad; Or, Billy Buck's Visit, with His Master, to England by Ebenezer Starnes, Joseph Jones (1860)
"... an fired away at ole Marster ; an some on 'urn run toward« him to take his
bar — as grandaddy used to say,' says I ('that means to sculp him, ..."
4. Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan (1904)
"But I knows, 'cause my ole grandaddy tole me, an' it happen in his grandaddy's time.
You see it was de grandaddy of all dese yere Ratels, an' it was when he ..."
5. The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West by Baynard Rush Hall (1843)
"So, you see I give up the turkey and killed the varmint—and that's his skin,
grandaddy, you see tother day at our house." This reminded Uncle John of an ..."
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