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granny

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granny, grannie
1. Engineering a revolving cap on a chimneypot that keeps out rain, etc.
2. Southern US a midwife or nurse
Granny
cantankerous matriarch of the Clampett family. [TV: “The Beverly Hillbillies” in Terrace, I, 93–94]
See : Irascibility
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You have been such good children that I am going to send you to visit my granny, who lives in a dear little hut in the wood.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
They had great-grand-children, and were soon to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage; but they could not exactly recollect the date: and old Granny sat in the tree, and looked as pleased as now.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
Johnny, my pretty,' continued old Betty, caressing the child, and rather mourning over it than speaking to it, 'your old Granny Betty is nigher fourscore year than threescore and ten.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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