grandmacore

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From grandma +‎ -core.

Noun[edit]

grandmacore (uncountable)

  1. (aesthetic) An aesthetic based on things stereotypically associated with grandmothers, including knitting, baking, etc.
    • 2020 March 10, Isabel Slone, “Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Cottagecore is related to grandmacore, faeriecore, farmcore and goblincore; other nostalgia-ridden aesthetic communities that, paradoxically, thrive on many of the most popular internet platforms of the day.
    • 2023, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans (Object Lessons), New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 59:
      Or perhaps baking bread, collecting trinkets, and putting doilies around the house sounds more like your speed. If so, there's a whole community of grandmacore lovers out there waiting for you.