grandbabyn.
/ˈɡran(d)beɪbi/, U.S. /ˈɡræn(d)ˌbeɪbi/ North American.
A grandchild, esp. an infant.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandchild > [noun]
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1830 J. Neal Biogr. Notice v. in J. Bentham Princ. Legislation 96 One of the cleverest women I know, a sort of pet grand-baby of the philosopher, though they are not related at all.
1861 G. W. Curtis Trumps xi. 59 Why there's your grandpapa when he was a little grandbaby and had an old grandpapa in his turn.
1893 Galveston Daily News 24 Nov. 6/5 Mrs. Davenport has the distinction of being the mother of the Crisp grandbaby.
1921 Four Years in Underbrush xvi. 219 My grandbaby's got the browncreeters.
1953 V. Nabokov Let. 23 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 142 It was nice to hear about your grandbaby. I hope everything continues to go well with mother and child.
2003 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Sept. e9 ‘My favorite is the one of my grandbabies,’ says his petite 57-year-old wife as she pulls back her wraparound skirt and pats her right thigh, where the portraits of three smiling children are inked into her skin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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