granpy

plural granpies

1. alternativeAlternative form of grampy.

   We got through the Are-you-English?-really?-oh-London’s-great-my-granpy’s-Scottish stuff.

   1993, Mark Lawson, “Losing the Baggage – Canada”, in The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places, London: Picador, →ISBN, part 2 (North America), page 173

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   Your mother says that ‘the twins are delightful with all the children.’ Alas! why are they not delightful with their granpy, who yearns for them?

   1887 September 8, Henry Austin Bruce, G.C.B., Lord Aberdare of Duffryn, “To his Daughter Rachel”, in Letters of the Rt. Hon. Henry Austin Bruce […], volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Horace Hart, printer to the University, published 1902, →OCLC, “Later Life, 1874-1895” section, “Letters” subsection, page 234

   It's a story of close friendship between a city girl and a plucky little hillbilly who keeps house for her granpy.

   1943, “Justus, May Lizzie Whitman 9-11”, in Library Lens, volumes 1–3, Denver, Colo.: Colorado State Library, →OCLC, page 13

   Now that I am a parent myself, I hope that I have managed to instill the same values that Papa gave me, especially since my sons are impoverished by not having the granpy they should have had in their formative years. My heart gives a painful twitch everytime^([sic]) my younger son claims that he still remembers his granpy and how Papa used to dance and sing him to sleep.

   2003, Marlinda Angbetic Tan, Gathering Warmth (Ubod New Authors Series), Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, →ISBN, page 6