grandbaby, n. N. Amer.
Brit. /ˈgran(d)beɪbi/, U.S. /ˈgræn(d)ˌbeɪbi/
[‹ grand adj. + baby n. Compare grandbabe n., grandkid n.]
A grandchild, esp. an infant.
| 1861 G. W. Curtis Trumps xi. 59 Why there's your grandpapa when he was a little grandbaby and had an old grandpapa in his turn. 1921 Four Years in Underbrush xvi. 219 My grandbaby's got the browncreeters. 1953V. Nabokov Let. 23 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 142 It was nice to hear about your grandbaby. I hope everything continues to go well with mother and child. 2003 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 24 Sept. e9 ‘My favorite is the one of my grandbabies,’ says his petite 57-year-old wife as she pulls back her wraparound skirt and pats her right thigh, where the portraits of three smiling children are inked into her skin. |