grampie

plural grampies

1. alternativeAlternative form of grampy.

   My grampie was Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and army.

   2012, Christopher Hilton, quoting William (Billy) Field, “The Prisoner”, in Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories from the Falklands Campaign, The History Press, →ISBN, part one, page 122

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   If a monster comes running / and flapping her paws / snapping her tail / sharpening her claws / remember these words that my grampie would say to chase all those monsters away: I’m not afraid that monsters want to eat me for their meal. I’m not afraid of monsters 'cause they're not really real.

   2000, Gretchen Kelbaugh, Lollipopsicles, BAJ Books, →ISBN, page 26

   Like my grampie, he was round and bald, and wore gold-rimmed glasses.

   2013, Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom, Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse LLC, →ISBN, page 19

   The child’s voice issued from the radio again. “I miss my grampie. Why won’t the bad man let him come home?”

   2015, Philip Reed, Off and Running, Brash Books, →ISBN, page 139

   That last one struck Natalie—did she really used to be that little girl with the dorktastic pigtails, feet barely able to touch the floor, waiting for Grampie to fix her a milkshake?

   2017, Gillian French, The Door to January, Islandport Press, →ISBN, page 7