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单词 grandad
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grandadn.

Brit. /ˈɡrandad/, U.S. /ˈɡrænˌdæd/
Forms: 1700s– granddad, 1700s– grandad, 1900s– granda. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grand- comb. form, dad n.1
Etymology: < grand- comb. form + dad n.1, after grandfather n. Compare earlier granddaddy n. and grandada n., and compare also grandpa n. and related words.
colloquial.
One's grandfather. Also used as a familiar form of address to an elderly man.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandfather
mother-fathereOE
eldfatherOE
grandsirec1300
aiela1325
belsirea1325
grandfather1424
belfatherc1440
goodsire?c1450
fore-grandsire1513
gutcher1523
granfer1564
granddaddy1648
grandpapa1680
grandada1699
grandad1764
grandpa?1785
grandpappy1857
grandpop1860
abuelo1876
dada1888
gramp1890
grampy1904
lolo1934
gramps1935
zayde1946
opa1948
opi1988
1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. vi. 66 Your grandsire was my grand-dad's guest.
1793 M. Pilkington Rosina IV. xx. 185 I might be caught napping like old grandad.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cxxxvii. 187 His hardships were comparative To those related in my grand-dad's Narrative.
1865 Look before you leap I. 18 A ward of my granddad's.
1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 17 Grandad, what did granny say?
1909 Domestic Engin. 7 Aug. 156/1 ‘Why we always cut the water off when tapping. It’s the safest way,’ continued this honest man of old. ‘Say, Grandad,’ I answered, ‘you light away from the edge of the bank..and you may learn something.’
1963 D. Ballantine And Glory 143 ‘Dad, you're not going out at this time of night, are you?’ my mother said. ‘Too right I am,’ Grandad said.
2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) iii. 49 Grandad would get me a comic from Tom's Newsagents, or a bag of Revels.

Compounds

attributive. Designating a style of shirt or shirt neckline with a collar in the form of a narrow upright band fastened with buttons, reminiscent of an older style of shirt with such a neckline intended to take a detachable stud-fastened collar. Esp. in grandad collar, grandad shirt.
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1948 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 26 May 4/2 (advt.) The Grandad Shirt Blouse in grey, tan, or blue cotton with removable pique collar.
1963 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 11 Aug. c8/4 (advt.) Black and white striped blouse with grandad collar.
1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 26 The catalogue serves up those essential items like..jersey grandad tops..and cotton canvas hunter jackets all in a comprehensive range of colours.
2003 H. R. F. Keating Dreaming Detective (2004) vi. 69 Didn't collarless grandad shirts come back into fashion recently?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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