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Definition: Granny |
GrannyNoun1. The mother of your father or mother. 2. An old woman. 3. A reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "granny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: New members neede someone to look after them and be able to ask advice, like a grandmother would help a grandchild. Definition: An older woman who takes a new member under their wing for the first few weeks. She shows them the way the house works. Context: The term is used when a new member has questions or wants to hang out with a member from the house . Social Source: Gamma Phi Beta Sorority. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | GRANNY. An abbreviation of grandmother; also the name of an idiot, famous for licking, her eye, who died Nov. 14, 1719. Go teach your granny to suck eggs; said to such as would instruct any one in a matter he knows better than themselves. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: GrannySynonyms: gran (n), grandma (n), grandmother (n), grannie (n), granny knot (n), matriarch (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Teaching | Preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Granny |
| Specialty definitions using "granny": LONG TONGUED. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Granny I just want you to know my real name (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt) You know, Granny, I really don't think I need to do that (Nutty Professor II: The Klumps; writing credit: Jerry Lewis; Steve Oedekerk) | |
Lyrics | Granny will your dog bite ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tugboat Granny (1956) Granny Get Your Gun (1940) The Granny (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [A Granny, 88 yrs. old]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [West Florida Granny Midwife]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Granny Harrison delivering the country of the executive Federalist. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Granny! Jerry! Virginia! : the words broke from her lips like bullets. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old Irish granny smoking her dudheen. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Granny" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.48% of the time. "Granny" is used about 588 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.48% | 421 | 13,527 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.52% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Total | 100.00% | 588 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "granny": granny creche ♦ granny glasses ♦ granny knot ♦ granny Smith ♦ teach granny to suck eggs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "granny": granny-flat, Granny-liz, granny-murderers. | |
Ending with "granny": Great-granny. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
granny | 2,972 | hairy granny | 127 |
granny tgp | 974 | granny and fatties | 117 |
mature granny | 440 | jilting of granny weatherall | 112 |
granny gallery | 407 | nasty granny | 107 |
granny pic | 385 | granny square | 98 |
granny post | 269 | granny sluts | 93 |
granny picture | 247 | boy granny | 92 |
free granny pic | 243 | granny movie | 90 |
old granny | 227 | free granny picture | 77 |
fat granny | 214 | dirty granny | 77 |
hot granny | 214 | black granny | 77 |
free granny | 214 | granny facial | 75 |
granny thumb | 199 | british granny | 71 |
absolute granny | 188 | granny groovin | 71 |
granny milf | 178 | granny boot | 64 |
free granny gallery | 166 | free granny movie | 64 |
granny post.com | 155 | granny thumbs.com | 64 |
granny blow job | 152 | american granny | 63 |
granny hardcore | 150 | granny orgy | 61 |
granny lesbian | 130 | busty granny | 60 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "granny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ouma. (various references) | |
Albanian | gjyshe (grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grandparent, grannie), plakë (Babushka, Gammer, Goody, grannie, old woman), njeri gërnjar (grannie). (various references) | |
Arabic | جدة (grandma, grandmamma, grandmother, grandparent, nanny, originality, recency). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суетлив човек (fuss-pot, grannie, worrier), стара жена (grannie), неправилно вързан възел (grannie), баба (grandma, grandmother, grannie, mother, old woman, wise woman, woman). (various references) | |
Catalan | iaia. (various references) | |
Chinese | 老婆婆 (grannie), 老大娘 (aunty). (various references) | |
Czech | babièka (gran, grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie). (various references) | |
Danish | kællingeknude (granny knot). (various references) | |
Dutch | oma (grandmother), grootje. (various references) | |
Esperanto | avinjo. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیرزن یاپیرمرد, مادربزرگ (Grandma, Grandmother), ننه جان . (various references) | |
Finnish | mummo (grandmother, old woman). (various references) | |
French | grand-maman (grannie). (various references) | |
German | oma (grandma, grandmother, nan, nana, nanny). (various references) | |
Greek | γιαγιά (gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סבתא'ל" (grannie), סבא (granddad, grandfather, grandpa, grandpapa). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagymama (Babushka, grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie), nagyi (grannie). (various references) | |
Italian | nonnina (grandma), nonna (grandma, grandmother, grandparent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 縦結び (vertical or granny knot). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たてむすび (vertical or granny knot). (various references) | |
Korean | 머니 (grandmother, grannie). (various references) | |
Manx | mwarree [f] (gammer, grandma, grandmother), mwarree (gammer, grandma, grandmother). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annygray.(various references) | |
Polish | babcia. (various references) | |
Portuguese | vovozinha, avozinha (grandma, grandmamma), av (grandma, grandmamma, grandmother, grandparent). (various references) | |
Romanian | bunicuţã (Grandmamma), bunicã (gammer, grand ma, grand mamma, grandam, Grandmamma, grandmother). (various references) | |
Russian | бабушка (gran, grandma, grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, nan). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | baka (cummer, grandma, grandmamma, grandmother, grannie). (various references) | |
Spanish | de abuelita, abuelita (grandma, Grandmamma, grannie). (various references) | |
Swedish | mormor (gran, grandfather, grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, maternal grandmother), farmor (gran, grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, paternal grandmother). (various references) | |
Turkish | nine (Goody, gran, grandam, grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, nana, progenitress), babaanne (grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, paternal grandmother), büyükanne (grandam, grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, progenitress), anneanne (grandma, Grandmamma, grandmother, grannie, maternal grandmother). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | старенька (grannie), бабуся (grandma, grandmother, grannie), бабуня (grannie). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lóng pháo lớn (grannie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Granny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ganny, gany, garni, garnie, Garrani, geranyl, germanny, Gorani, gran, grana, granna, grannys, Granpy, granu, grany, grendy, Grigny, Grinky, grinny, griny, gronky, gronnd, Groznyy, Grunay, guany, pranny, prinny, trannie, tranny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "granny" (pronounced gra"nē) |
| 4 | -r a" n ē | cranny. |
| 3 | -a" n ē | canny, Fanny, nanny, uncanny. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: angry, rangy. | |
-2 letters: gnar, gran, gray, nary, rang, yang, yarn. | |
-3 letters: any, gan, gar, gay, nag, nan, nay, rag, ran, ray, rya, yar. | |
-4 letters: ag, an, ar, ay, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: yarning. | |
+2 letters: gynandry, regnancy, yearning. | |
+3 letters: androgyne, androgyny, aroynting, brandying, crayoning, nongreasy, panfrying, pregnancy, rantingly, unvarying, warningly, yearnings. | |
+4 letters: androgynes, blarneying, carnifying, gynandries, gynandrous, ignorantly, pregnantly, repugnancy, sanguinary, yearningly. | |
+5 letters: androgynies, androgynous, astringency, banteringly, endearingly, guarantying, infrangibly, ingrainedly, interagency, interlaying, reanalyzing, repugnantly, tyrannising, tyrannizing, underlaying, underpaying, unsparingly. | |
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