单词 | grandpa |
释义 | grandpan. colloquial. One's grandfather. Also used as a familiar form of address to one's grandfather or to an elderly man. Also used before a person's surname (or occasionally their forename). 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 ?1785 D. Kilner Rotchfords I. 127 Your grandpa and grandma will be frightened. 1788 M. Michel Let. 8 June in A. C. Bower Diaries & Corr. (1903) 45 Kind remembrances to Mr. Bower Senior, alias (Grandpa). 1853 Arthur's Home Mag. Sept. 227/2 She went up stairs with her child, who called out earnestly: ‘Grandpa, come up! do come, grandpa.’ 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxxviii. 404 Grandpa and grandma,..stiff, old-fashioned, high-collared, puff-sleeved. 1900 Amer. Kitchen Mag. Sept. 221/2 That was way back thar. Long 'foh your granpa 's bo'n. 1916 N. W. Putnam Adam's Garden xv. 234 ‘Oh, dearie me! Oh, dearie me!’ wailed Mr. Kipp. ‘Whatever is it all about?’ ‘Shut-up, Grandpa!’ ordered the policeman... ‘Shutup you, and let the gintleman here speak.’ 1947 W. Goyen in Mademoiselle Apr. 170 Grandpa Samuels..kept wheeling around her house in his wheel chair. 1962 E. Gibbons Stalking Wild Asparagus 235 Any neighbor who happened to locate a bee tree would usually report it to Grandpa. 2010 R. Skloot Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks (2011) ii. 24 Grandpa Tommy hitched the horses after supper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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