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grandamn. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French *grandame. Etymology: Apparently < Anglo-Norman or Old French *grandame, although the word appears not to be attested in French until considerably later than quot. c1225 at sense 1a: compare Middle French grandame , grandamme (a1398) < grand grand adj. + dame dame n. Compare discussion at grand- comb. form.In Anglo-Norman and Old French the usual term for grandmother in written texts is aele , aiuele (compare aiel n.). 1. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandmother c1225 (?c1200) (Royal) (1934) 53 In hire grandame hus þat wes icleopet Clete. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. l. 1445 A lady..So old sche myhte unethes go, And was grantdame unto the dede. 1464 in (1841) 159 (MED) Item, my mastyre toke..to my ladyis grawndamys harpere that dwellyth in Chestre, iij s. iiij d. 1509 J. Fisher (de Worde) (colophon) My lady the kynges graundame. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 194v His graundam full graidly grippit hym onone. 1556 in J. G. Nichols (1852) 96 The xxvij. of June [1555] was kept the obijt of the kynges grandhame. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 168 I am thy grandame Richard. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Lacy ii. i. 26 I'l see you buried in the flaxon your Grandam spun her self. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Wife of Bathe's Tale in 493 No Father can infuse, or Wit, or Grace, A Mother comes across, and marrs the Race. A Grandsire, or a Grandame taints the Blood. 1737 8 He may fancy himself very Rich..but when he comes to a Foreign Market, he will find it all imaginary veryfying his Grandam's Tales of Fairy-Gold. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in 2nd Ser. I. 209 These blunders occasioned grief to his grand-dame. 1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in 1st Ser. (London ed.) 68 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxxxiv. 6 So grandsire, grandam alike did agree. 1922 J. Joyce ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 374 Our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords. 1987 W. Meredith New Poems in 178 Even with ourselves, where a family holds to one place for a little while, gestures recur from granddam to grandchild. 2009 K. Maitland 247 My old grandam used to tell me tales of him that her mam had taught her. the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > female > parent > mother's mother 1729 R. Bradley iv. 252 We cannot be assured that such an Horse is of a true English Breed.., his Grandsire, or Grandam, might be perhaps both Foreigners. 1786 J. Weatherby 14 235 Woodpigeon, by Woodpecker, out of Crop's grandam. 1839 A. Ure 1308 By coupling the female [ewe] thus generated, with such a male..another improvement of one-half will be obtained, affording a staple three-fourths finer than that of the grandam. 1877 24 Nov. 445/1 Sired by Junior Golddust, he by Old Golddust; dam of this colt by Old Golddust, and grandam by Dorsey's horse, making the colt five-eighths blood to Dorsey's horse. 1957 C. Leicester ix. 144 This..leaves untouched the tail female line, i.e. the dam, grandam, etc. of the animal under investigation. 2007 109/2 We saw he was by Sadler's Wells and liked his pedigree (he comes from one of the best McGrath female lines and his grandam, Sweet Mimosa, won the French Oaks). 1400 G. Dunbar Let. 18 Feb. in 19 (1892) 313 Gif dame Alice the Bewmount was yhour graunde dame, dame Mariory Comyne hyrre full sister was my graunde dame on the tother syde. 1543 Inverness Sheriff Court f. 15, in (at cited word) His father, mother, guid schyir, guidame, grandschyir, grandeam..or..utheris his predecessouri. 1648 V. 331 Whos mother wes dochter to vmquhill William Earle Marshall, his gudame dochter to the Earle Findlater, and his grandame dochter to my Lord Forbes. 1688 W. Scot 37 Thy thirty Ancestors I would have men to ken, Thy eight great Grandsirs, and thy eight great Grandames, Thy Grandsirs and Grandames eight, that makes twenty four [etc.]. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > first ancestor or patriarch > Adam and Eve as > Eve 1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece (1941) II. xiii. xvi. 230 King Alexander..tuke þe banys of his grandame, Sanct Margarate. 1620 T. Peyton i. 30 Our grandame Eue. 1629 J. Gaule 9 One should ryse from her Loynes, to recouer his Grand-dames fall; and pash that wily Serpents head. 1647 in J. Cleveland Poems (new ed.) in (Wing C4666) 52 The Devill sure such language did atchieve, To cheat our un-fore-warned Grandam Eve. 1724 25 Jan. 2769/1 When Grandame Eve first invented the Needle to sew Fig Leaves together. 1820 W. Scott I. iv. 93 Who, wise and good as she was, was yet a daughter of grandame Eve. 1896 R. Kipling 83 The grandam of my grandam was the Lyre—That the Stealer stooping beachward filled with fire. 1914 D. C. Beard xlviii. 236 Here also, over the open fire, fish, game, and chickens may be cooked, as our grandams and granddaddies cooked them. 1943 R. Graves vii. 89 As Eve was my grandam, so also was she your great-grandam. the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] ?1550 J. Bale 54 Some superstycyouse grandame, or some olde dottynge Sir Dauy. 1553 T. Wilson 77 b This olde grandamme was devoutelye kneling upon her knees. 1641 J. Johnson 99 If it were not for some of the old out-of-date Grandames (who are set over the rest as their tutoresses) the young sparkish Girles would read in Shakespeere day and night. 1791 W. Gifford 312 And itching grandams spawl lascivious odes. 1837 N. Hawthorne (1851) I. xix. 285 The skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam. 1893 21 128 A dear old grandam, bent by years to a question-mark, hobbled bravely across notwithstanding. 1993 21 Oct. 98 (advt.) MWM (58) seeks like-minded, unpretentious, still redolently nubile grandame..of natural beauty and uncommon wit. 1571 J. Northbrooke f. 66 This monstrous doctrine of transubstantiation did come from Rome, the greate Grandame of all abhominable errours. ?1602 (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 734 And so I died and sunke into my grandam..earth. 1606 T. Dekker vii. sig. F3 This ancient and reuerend Grandam of Citties. 1627 J. Reading 304 Impatience is the Grand-dame of all sinne. 1630 J. Taylor i. 98 That Ale is Grandam Natures brewing. a1649 W. Drummond (1711) 34/2 From out their Grand-Dame Earth they fain would fly. a1745 J. Swift Answer Lindsay's Paulus in W. King (1754) 83 By Phoebus (an incestuous birth) Begot upon his grandame Earth. 1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Nov. 4 In grandame Nature's vast collection. Phrases1611 R. Cotgrave at Apprendre (An idle, vaine, or needlesse labour) we say, to teach his grandame to grope ducks. 1639 J. Taylor 78 Get you home, and teach your Grandam to sucke Egges. 1647 G. Wither 2/1 The children frequently begin, To teach their grandams how to spin. 1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 17/2 in Go teach your Grandam to sard; a Nottingham Proverb. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo (1709) 348 You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs. 1800 M. Geisweiler tr. A. von Kotzebue iv. ii. 80 Old Jack Sprat would teach his grandam—thou art trying me. Compounds the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > hoarded wealth 1669 J. Dryden iv. i. 48 Frances has an 120 pieces of old Grandam and Aunt gold left her. 1700 J. Dryden Pref. sig. *D They..hoord him up, as Misers do their Grandam Gold, only to look on it themselves. the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > other specific types of word 1598 E. Guilpin vi. sig. E1 Some blame deep Spencer for his grandam words. Derivatives the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman > for old woman 1649 W. Davenant ii. 8/1 Ile teach Her Grandameship to mump, and marry too. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.c1225 |
/ˈɡrandeɪm/, U.S.