gran'ma

plural gran'mas

1. alternativeAlternative form of grandma.

   What a lovely gran’ma you have! Isn’t God good to give little boys gran’mas?

   1892 July 9, Grace E. Denison, “A Reformed Primary Class”, in The Sunday School Times, volume XXXIV, number 28, Philadelphia, Pa.: John D. Wattles, page 436, column 3

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   “The darling! What a great girl she has grown! So she has come to see her gran’ma?” / “Yes, gran’ma,” said the child.

   1904, Hall Caine, chapter XIII, in The Prodigal Son, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, page 300

   The rest was stories, told before his bedtime, of the dark deeds of night, remembered from her own childhood, told to her by her own mama, and her gran’pa and gran’ma, the things a black child in the South needed to know, and luridly colored, in Flora’s telling, as warning to her boy.

   1997, Alex Haley, David Stevens, Mama Flora’s Family: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A Lisa Drew Book / Scribner, published 1998, →ISBN, page 16

   A porter was a fine thing to be back then. A society of gentlemen, is what my gran’ma said.

   2014, Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford; 10), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 56