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a soft exterior wrapped around someone who survived everything and forgets nothing
means An affectionate, informal word for one's grandmother, or for any older woman of grandmotherly age and warmth.
from A pet form of 'grandmother,' built from the same family as 'grandam' and 'gran.' The 'gran-' is the Old French 'grant' (great), used to mean 'one generation removed' — your great-mother. English softened it into the cozy nursery 'granny' around the 17th century, the kind of word a child can say before they can say much else. It later spread outward to label things gentle and old-fashioned: granny knots, granny squares, granny glasses.
- knot expert
- granny knot is named for being amateurishly wrong
- apple variety
- Granny Smith came from one woman's compost heap
- gear slang
- granny gear is a truck's lowest, slowest, strongest setting
- flat fact
- granny flat is a real legal housing term worldwide
- longevity
- grandmothers helping rear young may explain human menopause
granny smith apple — cultivar developed by maria ann smith in sydney, australia around 1868
granny's marathon — harriette thompson ran marathons starting at age 76, completing one at 92 in 2015