grandmomma

English

Noun

grandmomma (plural grandmommas)

1. (US, colloquial) Grandmother.
   • 1948 September 1, “News of the Territory”, in The Exhibitor, page NT-4:

     There’s been an “accent on youth” where exhibitors are concerned, and Nat Bernstein, owner Bernstein Circuit, followed suit. […] But, the mommas and grandmommas figured the accent was in the wrong place, so they suggested something just for them on the same par, with prizes as well.

   • 1962 July 9, Huston Horn, “Baseball’s Babbling Brook”, in Sports Illustrated, page 63:

     No sooner do we walk in the door, than here come the kids, the mommas, the poppas, the grandmommas and the grandpoppas, all holding these little autograph books.

   • 1974, James Dobson, Hide or Seek, Old Tappan, N.J.: Power Books, Fleming H. Revell Company, →ISBN, page 49:

     We have systematically been taught to worship beauty and brains, as everyone else, and so have our grandmommas and grandpoppas and uncles and aunts and cousins and neighbors.