granddaddiest

English

Alternative forms

• grand-daddiest

Etymology

From granddaddy +‎ -est.

Adjective

granddaddiest

1. (informal) Biggest and most impressive; most significant.
   • 1978 August 19, Tom Somach, “Life is not a spectator sport for Motor City’s Ted Nugent”, in The Morning Call, number 96:

     “It’s the grand-daddiest (bleep-bleepin’) (bleep-bleep) album you’ve ever seen,” he [Ted Nugent] said of it.

   • 1981 February 1, “In celebration of groundhog”, in The Argus, Rock Island, Ill., section “Sunday Argus Quad-Citian”, page 2:

     As sure as God made little green apples, spring arrived on March 21. It would have arrived with or without the groundhog’s prediction, but what would the TV media have done for news if it hadn’t been for Phil, the grand-daddiest groundhog of all time.

   • 1982, The Pembroke Magazine, page 150:

     The old patriarch would watch us, chewing his plug or sucking his dip, smiling, generous as unceasing tide, rejoicing with us when we’d bait the granddaddiest crab with tainted meat on strings, then swoop nets under to bring in old barnacle-back over the side of the rowboat.

   • 1986 April 6, Dave Henderson, quoting Charles Henderson, “Pothole poetry”, in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., page 16C:

     The grand-daddiest pothole of all / Lies along side the Oakdale Mall / It is bigger by far / Than a small foreign car / And unknown is the depth of it all.

   • 1986 December 31, John R. Olson, “Comeback glory soothes ’63 pain”, in The Capital Times, Madison, Wis., page 15:

     Certain auras surround most great bowl games and the titanic 1963 USC-UW struggle might just be the “granddaddiest of them all.”

   • 1990 April 15, Gene Zipperlen, “A small paper receives a big honor by providing an enormous service”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., section 3, page 5:

     The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its six-year streak with an award for public service, the granddaddiest of the Pulitzers.

   • 1997 October 8, Kelly Egan, “Udder-ly beautiful bovine: Area-bred cow wins world title”, in Ottawa Citizen, page B1:

     The nine-year-old cow, bred at Boalcrest Farms just outside Pakenham, won the grand-daddy of prizes at the grand-daddiest dairy show on Earth: In effect, she was named the best show cow of any breed in the world.

   • 2001 November 2, Tom Shatel, “Check out how BCS computer works in fantasy sports world”, in Omaha World-Herald, page 2C:

     College Football Commissioner Keith Jackson said yesterday that this year’s College Football Championship game between Nebraska and Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl will be the grand-daddiest of them all.

   • 2006, Joseph Harry Silber, The Ecstasies of Willaert, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 237:

     It was huge, huge, the hugest oldest granddaddiest brookie this river had ever coughed Bunce’s way.

   • 2006 January 5, David White, “USC can’t pull out win this time”, in The Fresno Bee, page D1:

     USC had to go and try to top itself, teasing America’s attention one last time with a national championship at stake in the Rose Bowl, the grand-daddiest of theaters, Wednesday night.

   • 2015, Paul Haddad, 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 52 Walking Adventures, Santa Monica Press, →ISBN:

     In 600 steps, you’ll encounter the granddaddiest of all Studio City landmarks, known as the Sportsmen’s Lodge.

   • 2016 January 2, Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam, Wis., page C1:

     THE GRANDDADDIEST! Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey has record-setting performance in Cardinal’s rout of Hawkeyes

   • 2017, Dan Champagne, Seducer: Insurgence (volume II, book III of the Abaddon Trilogy), PonderHouse, →ISBN:

     I’ve heard of this asshole. Ivaylo, The Emperor. The granddaddiest of the Vrykolakas.

   • 2022, Ann Handley, Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 170:

     And perhaps the granddaddiest of all mondegreens: Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 lyric in “Purple Haze,” Scuse me while I kiss the sky).