grandmalike

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English

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Etymology

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From grandma +‎ -like.

Adjective

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grandmalike (comparative more grandmalike, superlative most grandmalike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a grandma.
    • 2014 July 1, Alisha Gaddis, Women's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN:
      No, I'm in the sixth grade, standing in the dressing room with my mom and Gertrude .. . the grandmalike sales associate who helps the preteens pick out their first bras. My mom just keeps saying how I don't need a bra. (Jessica as her mom.) []
    • 2015 April 21, Melissa Collins, The Love Series Complete Box Set, M Collins Author LLC, →ISBN:
      My heart softens for this kind grandmalike woman standing before me. Without much thought, I tell her yes. “But I have a job at a camp during the week until the end of the summer. I can only do weekends.” We're momentarily distracted by []
    • 2009 October 6, Elise Hyatt, Dipped, Stripped, and Dead, Penguin, →ISBN:
      But it was neither Janet, the white-haired grandmalike lady who ran this place, nor her husband, Mike. No. The person who rounded the corner of the wardrobe—resplendent in a cowled green robe that, other than the color and the fact that []

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