grandbig

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noun

A big of a big; a sorority member who has herself mentored a mentor.

Opposite
Scrabble 13

Meanings

noungrandbig (plural grandbigs)

plural grandbigs

  1. university slangA big of a big; a sorority member who has herself mentored a mentor.

    Tessa Bradlie Souffrant posted "My grandbig and her mom are missing while she is abroad in New Zealand".

    2016 April 30, “Missing American hikers found safe”, in Newstalk ZB
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    Your Greek roots go back further than those old letter T-shirts your grandbig gave you. Since Greek life was established at GW more than 150 years ago, sororities and fraternities have become a part of University history, now making up a third of our campus population.

    2014 September 11, Alissa Varghese, Eva Palmer, “Throwback: Greeks in national, University history”, in The GW Hatchet

    Every Little is assigned a Big to mentor them, and it's the Big's job to show them how things are done. Every Big has a Grandbig who is over the Big, and then there's the Great Grandbig, the—" "Let me guess," I said. "The Mac Daddy of them all." "I prefer Mac Mother, but yes, you get the idea."

    2021, Cheryl Bradshaw, Little Lost Secrets

    Antonyms: grandlittle

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA big of a big; a sorority member who has herself mentored a mentor.

Opposite

Origin

From grand- + big, by analogy with familial relationships such as grandmother.

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APA

grandbig. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandbig

MLA

“grandbig.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandbig. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grandbig,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandbig.

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