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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
2: an old woman
3: a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure [syn: granny knot, granny]

Merriam Webster's

or grannie noun (plural grannies) Etymology: by shortening & alteration Date: 1663 1. a. grandmother 1 b. a fussy person 2. chiefly Southern & south Midland midwife

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also grannie) (pl. -ies) colloq. grandmother. Phrases and idioms: granny bond Brit. colloq. a form of National Savings certificate orig. available only to pensioners. granny flat (or annexe) Brit. part of a house made into self-contained accommodation for an elderly relative. granny knot a reef-knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure. Etymology: obs. grannam for GRANDAM + -Y(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Granny Gran"ny, n. A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. Granny's bend, or Granny's knot (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also grannie(grannies) Some people refer to their grandmother as granny. (INFORMAL) ...my old granny. N-FAMILY

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

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.

Moby Thesaurus

Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, beldam, conservative, crone, dad, dame, dodo, dowager, elder, fogy, fossil, frump, fud, fuddy-duddy, fuss, fuss-budget, fusser, fusspot, gammer, grandam, grandma, grandmother, grannam, great-grandmother, hag, has-been, longhair, matriarch, mid-Victorian, mossback, old battle-ax, old believer, old crock, old dame, old dodo, old fogy, old girl, old granny, old lady, old liner, old maid, old man, old poop, old trot, old wife, old woman, old-timer, patriarch, pop, pops, reactionary, regular old fogy, relic, square, starets, traditionalist, trot, war-horse, witch