Definition of Grannies

1. Noun. (plural of granny) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grannies

1. grannie [n] - See also: grannie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grannies

granites
graniteware
granitewares
granitic
granitical
granitification
granitiform
granitoid
granivore
granivores
granivorous
grannam
grannams
grannie
grannied
grannies (current term)
granny
granny's bonnets
granny-bashing
granny annexe
granny annexes
granny dumping
granny knot
granny knots
granny panties
granny shot
granny style
grannying
granoblastic
granocentric

Literary usage of Grannies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Her Royal Highness Woman and His Majesty by Max O'Rell (1901)
"CHAPTER XXXVII MAMMIES AND grannies Cupboard love—Every kind of love ... do get one—Reminiscences of. grannies—A sacrifice—grannies are not at all ..."

2. A Hand-book of English Literature by Francis Henry Underwood (1879)
"continually sinking to a lower level, and in time the community would be delivered over to the healing skill of quacks and grannies. So every profession may ..."

3. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1882)
"An' gospel too were learned an' sound ; They kent the points o' doctrine a', Our reverend grannies in the law An' flock'd to preachers far an' round. ..."

4. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"A slight encroachment upon the retina is common, and occasionally isolated grannies are seen well out from the main body. More rarely large masses of them ..."

5. Food: Its Adulterations, and the Methods for Their Detection by Arthur Hill Hassall (1876)
"Many of the above-described particulars, as also the character? of the cellulose, are well exhibited in fig. 73. Fig. 74. a, «tarch grannies of rate wheat ..."

6. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1882)
"Our sturdy grannies tighter drew Their cloaks when fiercer blew the blast, ... An' grannies pattens past are laid. Our grannies baked, our grannies brew'd, ..."

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