granny
IPA: grˈæni
noun
- (colloquial) A grandmother.
- (colloquial, derogatory) An elderly woman.
- (knots) A granny knot.
- (agriculture, colloquial) An older ewe that may lure a lamb away from its mother.
- (Australia, colloquial) A grand final.
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To be a grandmother.
- (informal, intransitive) To act like a stereotypical grandmother; to fuss.
adjective
- (informal) typically or stereotypically old-fashioned, especially in clothing and accessories worn by or associated with elderly women.
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Examples of "granny" in Sentences
- Granny does not respond to this.
- I want it...the Granny bedspread.
- Every Telugu granny has it the recipe .
- A granny is a mistake in this application.
- A good example of a motif is the granny square.
- Helvia was a salesclerk at Granny's on the Mall in Cape May.
- It's the same thing with the granny knot and the grief knot.
- Granny looked away from the sun, got up and comforted the boy.
- The granny knot is the mathematical version of the common granny knot.
- But you can turn a granny into a clove hitch and a clove hitch into a granny.
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