Meanings
plural grandmommas
- UScolloquialGrandmother.
No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.
1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 632 more examples
There’s been an “accent on youth” where exhibitors are concerned, and Nat Bernstein, owner Bernstein Circuit, followed suit.[…]But, the mommas and grandmommas figured the accent was in the wrong place, so they suggested something just for them on the same par, with prizes as well.
1948 September 1, “News of the Territory”, in The Exhibitor, page NT-4We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.
1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49
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