grandpoppa

English

Noun

grandpoppa (plural grandpoppas)

1. (US, colloquial) Grandfather.
   • 1952, Marie Killilea, Karen, Dell Publishing, published 1960, page 17:

     The gallery about any nursery window is probably the proudest assemblage to be found anywhere. Poppas, grandpoppas, grandmammas, sisters, brothers, pizons and gumbods. We used to delight in our anonymity and enjoy their comments on our daughter.

   • 1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:

     No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.

   • 1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:

     We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.