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Definition of Granddaddies
1. granddaddy [n] - See also: granddaddy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Granddaddies
Literary usage of Granddaddies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ammunition for Final Drive on Booze: An Up-to-date Arsenal for Prohibition by Louis Albert Banks (1917)
"Oh, no; we put up our hands and pleaded for States' rights to save our slaves,
that we had bought originally from your granddaddies. Your great-granddaddies ..."
2. The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford (1913)
"... carrying the green bags, that their daddies and their granddaddies before them
carried, as they go slipping down the School street hill. ..."
3. The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1918)
"... had been standing for hundreds of years before the great-granddaddies of his
generation fought the Indians for a right to a home site in the wilderness ..."
4. Pioneering in Central Africa by Samuel Phillips Verner (1903)
"After my acquaintance had extended far enough to warrant me in asking about them,
I found that the old African granddaddies carried an almost inexhaustable ..."
5. ...The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-lore and Woodcraft by Daniel Carter Beard (1920)
"If you desire you may have your steel twisted in any of the shapes shown in Fig.
to imitate the ones used by your great granddaddies. ..."
6. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"In the latter bunch we probably will find the future granddaddies of the water
trails that keep the records for size well up and make a few lucky fishermen ..."
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