gran'pa

See also: granpa

English

Noun

gran'pa (plural gran'pas)

1. Alternative form of grandpa.
   • 1862, M[ary] E[lizabeth] Braddon, “Little Georgey Leaves His Old Home”, in Lady Audley’s Secret. […], 7th edition, volume II, London: Tinsley Bros., […], page 41:

     My gran’pa says when he takes my watch that he does it to keep the wolf from the door.

   • 1895, Mildred Lancaster, “Heredity”, in John F. B. Lillard, compiler, The Medical Muse, Grave and Gay. A Collection of Rhymes Up to Date, by the Doctor, for the Doctor, and against the Doctor, […], New York, N.Y.: I. E. Booth, […], page 87:

     We are not depraved beginners, / But hereditary sinners, / For our fathers never acted as they should; / ’Tis the follies of our gran’pas / That continually hampers; / What a pity that our gran’pas weren’t good!

   • 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.