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单词 grandpapa
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grandpapan.

Brit. /ˈɡran(d)pəˌpɑː/, U.S. /ˈɡræn(d)pəˌpɑ/
Forms: 1600s–1700s grandpappa, 1700s– granpapa, 1800s– grandpapa, 1800s– gran'papa. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grand- comb. form, papa n.2
Etymology: < grand- comb. form + papa n.2, after grandfather n. Compare later grandpa n., grandpappy n., and grandpop n., and compare also grandada n. and related words.
colloquial.
= grandpa n. Also in extended use.Cf. usage note at papa n.2 1.
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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
1680 L. Maidwell Loving Enemies i. 11 You need expect no Miracle, but to see her Nuns work run up and down, and call you Grand Pappa.
1753 Scots Mag. Apr. 188/1 There is my grandpappa.
1799 E. Darwin Let. 10 May (2007) 528 If your little presbyterian be like Gran-Papa.
1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Knights iv. i, in Comedies 245 Don't you see 'tis empty, Dear grand-papa?
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 186 They..call him grandpapa's master.
1914 G. Lee Diary 27 Oct. in Home Fires Burning (2006) 52 Poor old Grandpapa was calm and so far is none the worse for the shock, but it was a narrow squeak!
1930 Rotarian Oct. 16/1 Our grandpapas and grandmamas of the Middle Ages knew better.
1986 R. G. Vliet Soleded (rev. ed.) 182 When Abuelita María had died, Grandpapa had had it fetched upstairs.
2013 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 May 31 Mario Romano, known as the ‘grandpapa of Italian dining’ for his 36 restaurants around Glasgow.

Compounds

Grandpapa dance n. Obsolete rare A kind of country dance (cf. grandfather n. 5, Grandpère n.).
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1898 O. Browning Peter the Great vi. 52 The ‘Grandpapa’ dance of which Peter was particularly fond.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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