单词 | grandad |
释义 | grandadn. colloquial. One's grandfather. Also used as a familiar form of address to an elderly man. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1764 |
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