grandmammy — ozdic

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ADJ.

all

VERB + GRANDMAMMY

see

GRANDMAMMY + NOUN

blues-singers, understatements

Definitions

noun

1

Grandmother.

2

Synonym of granddaddy (“something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind”).

[…] and his orchestra as enchanting to dance to as it is, even if all this wasn't so superb, you'd want to go just to hear and see that grandmammy of all blues-singers who can still out-blue all of the younger ones, none other than Sophie Tucker.

[…] that these administration signals took us students by surprise would be the grandmammy of all understatements. Folks were, depending on their inclinations, in turn suspicious, flattered, surprised, confused, or all of the above simultaneously […]

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[…] and his orchestra as enchanting to dance to as it is, even if all this wasn't so superb, you'd want to go just to hear and see that grandmammy of all blues-singers who can still out-blue all of th

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[…] that these administration signals took us students by surprise would be the grandmammy of all understatements. Folks were, depending on their inclinations, in turn suspicious, flattered, surprised

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i Register

In some senses, grandmammy is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.