gran'ma

See also: granma

English

Noun

gran'ma (plural gran'mas)

1. Alternative form of grandma.
   • 1892 July 9, Grace E. Denison, “A Reformed Primary Class”, in The Sunday School Times, volume XXXIV, number 28, Philadelphia, Pa.: John D. Wattles, page 436, column 3:

     What a lovely gran’ma you have! Isn’t God good to give little boys gran’mas?

   • 1904, Hall Caine, chapter XIII, in The Prodigal Son, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, page 300:

     “The darling! What a great girl she has grown! So she has come to see her gran’ma?” / “Yes, gran’ma,” said the child.

   • 1997, Alex Haley, David Stevens, Mama Flora’s Family: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: A Lisa Drew Book / Scribner, published 1998, →ISBN, page 16:

     The rest was stories, told before his bedtime, of the dark deeds of night, remembered from her own childhood, told to her by her own mama, and her gran’pa and gran’ma, the things a black child in the South needed to know, and luridly colored, in Flora’s telling, as warning to her boy.

   • 2014, Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford; 10), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 56:

     A porter was a fine thing to be back then. A society of gentlemen, is what my gran’ma said.