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granny

noun as in grandmother

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noun as in old lady

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I was aware of it when I was a girl and I often asked Granny about it, but she was very quiet and never said anything.

My Granny the Escort concludes with two of the women reaching a crossroads of sorts.

She looks like your typical granny—gray hair, wrinkles, dentures—and slowly stumbles about her apartment in a magenta tracksuit.

Unlike his granny, Harry does carry cash, and paid for his own ticket and those of his staff.

"He called me granny," the actress told Kate, according to a report on Sky News.

"Never mind granny," she said, when they reached the house and Mandy stopped to say how d'ye to the old woman in the chair.

Probably he was some kin to old Granny Harris, who had distant connections in the North, some one suggested.

But it's your manner; you seem in such a hurry always to explain that granny wasn't our own grandmother.'

But at Stannesley, where we lived before, granny always got us very nice dresses: she used often to send to London for them.

The way that she seemed to start up just when—so soon after we had lost dear granny, and in a sense our home.'

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to granny, such as: dotard, fogy/fogey, fusspot, square, stick-in-the-mud, and dull person.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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