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granny

/gran-ee/US // ˈgræn i //UK // (ˈɡrænɪ) //

阿婆,阿嬷,奶奶,祖母

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural gran·nies.

    • : Informal. a grandmother.
    • : an elderly woman.
    • : a fussy person.
    • : Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a nurse or midwife.
    • : granny knot.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    gran·ni·er, gran·ni·est for 6.

    • : of, relating to, or thought to be like a grandmother or an elderly or old-fashioned woman: granny notions about what's proper.
    • : being loose-fitted and having such features as high necklines, puff sleeves, long skirts, and ruffles and lace trimmings: a granny blouse; a granny nightgown.

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Examples

  • Wood predicts the granny style will be stronger than ever in 2021.

  • In 2017, the city exceeded new state laws to make it easier and cheaper for homeowners to build granny flats – standalone second homes – on their properties.

  • In 2016 and 2017 combined, homeowners completed construction on 22 granny flats, according to city data.

  • Instead, he said Faulconer has opted to break up exclusionary neighborhoods by pushing granny flat reforms.

  • Property owners can right now build granny flats on single-family lots.

  • I was aware of it when I was a girl and I often asked Granny about it, but she was very quiet and never said anything.

  • My Granny the Escort concludes with two of the women reaching a crossroads of sorts.

  • She looks like your typical granny—gray hair, wrinkles, dentures—and slowly stumbles about her apartment in a magenta tracksuit.

  • Unlike his granny, Harry does carry cash, and paid for his own ticket and those of his staff.

  • "He called me granny," the actress told Kate, according to a report on Sky News.

  • "Never mind granny," she said, when they reached the house and Mandy stopped to say how d'ye to the old woman in the chair.

  • Probably he was some kin to old Granny Harris, who had distant connections in the North, some one suggested.

  • But it's your manner; you seem in such a hurry always to explain that granny wasn't our own grandmother.'

  • But at Stannesley, where we lived before, granny always got us very nice dresses: she used often to send to London for them.

  • The way that she seemed to start up just when—so soon after we had lost dear granny, and in a sense our home.'