granddaddiest

alternative grand-daddiest

1. informalBiggest and most impressive; most significant.

   “It’s the grand-daddiest (bleep-bleepin’) (bleep-bleep) album you’ve ever seen,” he [Ted Nugent] said of it.

   1978 August 19, Tom Somach, “Life is not a spectator sport for Motor City’s Ted Nugent”, in The Morning Call, number 96

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   As sure as God made little green apples, spring arrived on March 21. It would have arrived with or without the groundhog’s prediction, but what would the TV media have done for news if it hadn’t been for Phil, the grand-daddiest groundhog of all time.

   1981 February 1, “In celebration of groundhog”, in The Argus, Rock Island, Ill., section “Sunday Argus Quad-Citian”, page 2

   The old patriarch would watch us, chewing his plug or sucking his dip, smiling, generous as unceasing tide, rejoicing with us when we’d bait the granddaddiest crab with tainted meat on strings, then swoop nets under to bring in old barnacle-back over the side of the rowboat.

   1982, The Pembroke Magazine, page 150

   The grand-daddiest pothole of all / Lies along side the Oakdale Mall / It is bigger by far / Than a small foreign car / And unknown is the depth of it all.

   1986 April 6, Dave Henderson, quoting Charles Henderson, “Pothole poetry”, in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., page 16C

   Certain auras surround most great bowl games and the titanic 1963 USC-UW struggle might just be the “granddaddiest of them all.”

   1986 December 31, John R. Olson, “Comeback glory soothes ’63 pain”, in The Capital Times, Madison, Wis., page 15

   The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its six-year streak with an award for public service, the granddaddiest of the Pulitzers.

   1990 April 15, Gene Zipperlen, “A small paper receives a big honor by providing an enormous service”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., section 3, page 5