granny

See also: Granny

English

Etymology 1

• gran(nam) +‎ -y

Alternative forms

• grammy (less common)

• grannie (less common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæni/

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• Rhymes: -æni
• Hyphenation: gran‧ny

Noun

granny (plural grannies)

1. (colloquial) A grandmother.

   I'm going to be a granny.

2. (colloquial, derogatory) An elderly woman.

   There are too many grannies around here getting in the way.

3. (knots) A granny knot.
   • 1977, Stephen King, Children of the Corn

     The suitcase was old. The brown leather was battered and scuffed. Two hanks of clothesline had been wrapped around it and tied in large, clownish grannies.

4. (farming, colloquial) An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.

Synonyms

• (grandmother): gran, grandma, nan, nanna, nanny
• (elderly woman): old dear

Derived terms

• granny knot

Translations

colloquial: grandmother

• Arabic: جِدَّة‎ (ar) f (jidda), تِيتَة‎ f (tīta)
• Belarusian: бабу́ля f (babúlja), бабу́ня f (babúnja), бабу́ся f (babúsja)
• Bulgarian: ба́ба (bg) f (bába), ба́бче n (bábče)
• Catalan: iaia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶奶 (zh) (nǎinǎi, nǎinai)

• Czech: babička (cs) f, bábinka f, babča f
• Dutch: oma (nl) f, (Netherlands) opoe (nl) f, (Belgium) bomma (nl) f
• Finnish: mummi (fi)
• French: mémé (fr) f, mamie (fr) f
• German: Oma (de) f, Omi (de) f
• Hungarian: nagyi (hu)
• Italian: nonna (it), nonnina f
• Japanese: お婆ちゃん (おばあちゃん, obā-chan), お婆さん (ja) (おばあさん, obā-san)
• Korean: 할머님 (halmeonim)

• Macedonian: баба (mk) f (baba)
• Polish: babunia (pl) f, babusia f
• Portuguese: vó (pt) f, vovó (pt) f, vovozinha f
• Russian: ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), бабу́ся (ru) f (babúsja), бабу́ля (ru) f (babúlja), ба́ба (ru) f (bába), бабу́ня (ru) f (babúnja) (regional)
• Scots: gran, grannie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба́ка f

  Roman: báka (sh) f

• Slovak: babička (sk) f
• Slovene: bábica (sl) f
• Spanish: abuelita (es) f, yaya (es) f
• Turkish: nine (tr)
• Ukrainian: бабу́ся (uk) f (babúsja), бабу́ня (uk) f (babúnja), ба́бця (uk) f (bábcja), бабу́ля f (babúlja)

colloquial, derogatory: an elderly woman

• Bulgarian: стари́ца (bg) f (staríca)
• Czech: stařena (cs) f
• Dutch: besje (nl) f
• Finnish: mummo (fi), mummeli (fi)
• French: mémé (fr) f, vieille (fr) f
• German: Alte (de) f
• Hungarian: anyó (hu), anyóka (hu)

• Irish: seanbhean f, seanchailleach f
• Macedonian: ба́ба (mk) f (bába)
• Polish: babka (pl) f, staruszka (pl) f, baba (pl) f
• Portuguese: velha (pt) f
• Romanian: babă (ro) f
• Russian: ба́ба (ru) f (bába), ба́бка (ru) f (bábka), бабу́ся (ru) f (babúsja), бабу́ля (ru) f (babúlja), ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), стару́ха (ru) f (starúxa), стару́шка (ru) f (starúška)

Adjective

granny (not comparable)

1. (informal) typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women.

   granny dress; granny glasses

Verb

granny (third-person singular simple present grannies, present participle grannying, simple past and past participle grannied)

1. (informal, intransitive) To be a grandmother.
2. (informal, intransitive) To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.

Etymology 2

• gran(d) +‎ -y

Noun

granny (plural grannies)

1. (Australia, colloquial) A grand final.
   • 2007, Steve Bedwell, Vizard Uncut, Melbourne University Publish (→ISBN), page 30:

     On the morning of the 'granny', the three Vizards would hop into Godfrey's Dodge and head off towards the MCG.

   • 2016, Brent Harvey, Boomer, Macmillan Publishers Aus. (→ISBN)

     Jase was controversially suspended and prevented from playing in the granny.

   • 2020, Marlion Pickett, Dave Warner, Belief, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN)

     "Dad, I got some good news and bad news. Good news is I'll be playing in the granny. Bad news is you'll have to hop on a plane.”

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