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Granny is defined as a term for a grandmother, or the mother of your mother or father.

(noun)

Your father's mother is an example of your granny.

See granny in Webster's New World College Dictionary

or grannie

noun pl. grannies

a grandmother
an old woman
any fussy, exacting person
☆ South a midwife

adjective

of a style like that formerly worn by many elderly women [granny nightgown]; specif., designating eyeglasses () with small, often oval, lenses and thin, wirelike metal frames

See granny in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or gran·nie

noun pl. gran·nies

Informal A grandmother.
Informal A fussy person.
Chiefly Southern U.S. See midwife.

Origin:

Origin: Short for grandmother

Origin: or grandam

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