grand-dad, grandad
(ˈgrænddæd, ˈgrændæd)
[See grand a. 12 b.]
A childish or affectionate word for grandfather.
| 1819 Byron Juan ii. cxxxvii, His hardships were comparative To those related in my grand-dad's ‘Narrative’. 1865 Look before you leap I. 18 A ward of my granddad's. 1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 17 Grandad, what did granny say? |
So gran(d-)dada = grand-dad.
| 1698 Farquhar Love & Bottle i. (1699) 6 And so you left them to Grand Dada! 1871 G. Meredith H. Richmond III. xii. 205 Her mind was simply obedient to her grandada's wish. |