单词 | granfer |
释义 | granfern. English regional and North American regional. One's grandfather; a grandfather; (also) an elderly man. Also as a form of address. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun] old maneOE bevara1275 beauperec1300 vieillard1475 Nestor?c1510 old gentleman1526 haga1529 velyarda1529 old fellow?1555 old sire1557 granfer1564 vecchioc1570 ageman1571 grave-porer1582 grandsire1595 huddle-duddle1599 elder1600 pantaloon1602 cuffc1616 crone1630 old boya1637 codger?1738 dry-beard1749 eld1796 patriarch1819 oubaas1824 old chap1840 pap1844 pop1844 tad1877 old baas1882 senex1898 finger1904 AK1911 alte kacker1911 poppa stoppa1944 madala1960 Ntate1975 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 1564 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1993) (modernized text) VIII. 142 A brass kettle that her granfer gave her. 1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents ii. i. 20 I ware never afeard but once in my whole life, and that ware of grandfar's ghost. 1830 Boston Masonic Mirror 22 May 373/1 Dad says as how, I can have the same old rifle that Granfer fit with at the battle of the Cowpens. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. viii. 91 Ah, he's his grandfer's own grandson. 1898 L. Quiller-Couch Span. Maid xi. 152 White-haired granfers and grannies who sat and gossiped. 1906 F. M. Hueffer Fifth Queen i. i. 13 This is no house of thine, uncle, but my grandfar's. 1930 Daily Express 23 May 10/3 What is good enough for granfer is good enough for us, look'ee. 1949 S. Grapes Boy John Lett. (1974) 23 Granfar he brort home a grate bunch o' Crissmas wot he'd gathered, but Aunt Agatha, she own't ha' that indoors afore Xmas Eve, she say that unlucker, so Granfer left it in the shud. 1992 A. Symons Tremedda Days iii. 90 Sidney Berryman..could remember his ‘granfer’, a sprightly octogenarian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1564 |
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