grandmacore

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noun

An aesthetic based on things stereotypically associated with grandmothers, including knitting, baking, etc.

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Meanings

noungrandmacore (uncountable)
  1. uncountableaestheticAn aesthetic based on things stereotypically associated with grandmothers, including knitting, baking, etc.

    Or perhaps baking bread, collecting trinkets, and putting doilies around the house sounds more like your speed. If so, there's a whole community of grandmacore lovers out there waiting for you.

    2023, Carolyn Purnell, Blue Jeans (Object Lessons), New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 59
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    Cottagecore is related to grandmacore, faeriecore, farmcore and goblincore; other nostalgia-ridden aesthetic communities that, paradoxically, thrive on many of the most popular internet platforms of the day.

    2020 March 10, Isabel Slone, “Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment”, in The New York Times

Origin

From grandma + -core.

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APA

grandmacore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandmacore

MLA

“grandmacore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandmacore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grandmacore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grandmacore.

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