gramsn.
/ɡramz/, U.S. /ɡræmz/ North American colloquial.
An informal term for: one's grandmother; = gram n.5
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandmother
eldmotherc1000
grandamc1225
good-dame1400
grandmother1424
beldamc1440
lucky1629
granny1659
grandmama1694
lucky minnie1755
grandma1772
grandmammy1789
gran1829
babushka1834
abuela1836
grandmom1860
grandmum1861
grammy1886
dadi1888
minnie1888
grams1893
bubbe1895
nana1899
gram1923
nanny1927
lola1934
abuelita1937
oma1948
nain1954
nan1955
makulu1980
omi1988
1893 O. P. Read Tennessee Judge xiv. 213 And you won't tell grams? She'd scold me.
1952 D. W. Baruch One Little Boy x. 67 ‘Boom,’ he said. ‘Boom, I'm bombing Grams. Soon there'll be nothing left of her... There now, my Grams is all gone.’
1979 R. G. Martin Cissy vi. 147 Grams was striving vainly, and too late, to mold her character. Grams did not approve of her beaux.
2012 M. Quick Boy21 (2014) xii. 66 ‘Was that your grandfather in the car?’ He nods. ‘Do you live with him?’ ‘And my grams.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1893- out of shape
- out of sight
- out of sight, out of mind
- out of sorts
- out of space
- out of spirits
- out of square
- out of step
- out of step with
- out of stock
- out of straight
- out of suits with
- out of sync
- out of taste
- out of temper
- out of the bias
- out of the blue
- out of the body
- out of the box
- out of the cards
- out of the closet
- out of the common
- out of the frame
- out of the frying pan into the fire
- out of the game