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Definition of Grannam
1. n. A grandam.
Definition of Grannam
1. Noun. (colloquial) A grandam. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grannam
1. an old dame [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grannam
Literary usage of Grannam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"Leave the hearth and leave the house To the cricket and the mouse : Find grannam
out a sunny seat. With babe and lambkin at her feet Not a soul at home may ..."
2. Voice Culture and Elocution. by William T. Ross (1890)
"The blue-eyed boy looked up and smiled— " grannam, the days since you were ...
He climbed her knee and sweeter smiled— " grannam, the months since you were ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Old men i the house, of fifty, call me grannam. Beau, and l-'l.. Scornful Lady, iv.
1. Ghosts never walk till after midnight, if I may believe my grannam. ..."
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