What's the difference between grandma and granny?

Grandma


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Grandmamma

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (2) They even accused him of wanting to pull the plug on grandma .
  • (3) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
  • (4) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
  • (5) The clothes are at the forefront of Shibuya fashion, taking cues from the park sandpit, the urban divebar and grandma's wardrobe, and reworking them into a cutesy package for teenagers.
  • (6) Ask every grandma who is standing out there,” said Allard, who owns land where some of the activists have been camped for months.
  • (7) I don’t think I even listened to them.” In 2013, while Hebden was making the album Beautiful Rewind , his grandma passed away.
  • (8) We couldn't put on programming that would offend grandma as that might lose us a subscription.
  • (9) You’ve done more for women in cinema than you take credit for.” Lovely speech, topped with the grace note of Grandma.
  • (10) The 1992 election, with Clinton competing against America’s grandma Barbara Bush for the role of first lady, is when the national sexist spotlight began to shine.
  • (11) And that because she came out of Grandma's vagina and so on, it makes that relationship harder, too.
  • (12) Apart from our scientists, there is a "Lady Robot" (who exists mainly to party), a "Pretzel Girl", a "Diner Waitress" (who will boss you about if you don't agree with her recommendation of which burger is best for you), and "Grandma".
  • (13) When a black preacher makes sweeping pronouncements about whites, that's clearly racism; when your relative whispers about a stereotype whose roots go back as far as the preacher's rage, well, that's just grandma.
  • (14) To Be Free, the fourth show from the ex-Grandma’s House man, promises to explore “freedom, joy, love, death, adventure, art, peace, sex, regret, success, eating, suffering, dreaming, healing, forgiving and other areas”.
  • (15) But, with becoming heavyweight champion of the world comes responsibility, because you’ve got people from kids to grandmas watching you.
  • (16) Limited care If you remember anything from the 2009 and 2010 Obamacare debates, it's probably the "death panels": the notion that the government is going to restrict care and decide whether grandma lives or dies.
  • (17) My grandma was running me to the hospital.” Carson, who in some years performed more than 500 pediatric brain surgeries, received the patient.
  • (18) When asked to namecheck his favourite shows, however, Preston reels off a list of BBC programmes: Sherlock, Simon Amstell's sitcom Grandma's House and Rev, while he "can't wait" for The Apprentice to return.
  • (19) My grandma, a working-class street trader, would never have tolerated the old-style Glastonbury lavatories.
  • (20) Grandma got any more medals?” When Monroe, who is from an armed forces family, responded furiously and demanded £5,000 for a migrants’ charity on threat of a libel action, Hopkins deleted the original tweet but followed it up with one asking what the difference was between “irritant Penny and social anthrax Monroe”.

Granny


Definition:

  • (n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
  • (2) Granny flats, designed as standardized units using panels, offer privacy yet proximity to family members.
  • (3) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
  • (4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
  • (5) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2013 1 Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor (Christmas Day) 1.96m 2 EastEnders – (Christmas Day) 1.59m 3 EastEnders – (Boxing Day) 1.38m 4 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 1 – 1.36m 5 EastEnders – (27 December) 1.25m 6 Call the Midwife Christmas Day Special – 1.02m 7 Gangsta Granny (Boxing Day) – 1.01m 8 EastEnders - (New Year's Eve) 960,000 9 EastEnders - (30 December) 937,000 10 EastEnders – (Christmas Eve) 922,000 11 EastEnders – (23 December) 872,000 12 Still Open All Hours – (Boxing Day) 842,000 13 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2 – 820,000 14 EastEnders – (20 December) 793,000 15 Death Comes to Pemberley (Boxing Day) – 771,000 16 Citizen Khan Series 2 Episode 7 – 751,000 17 Michael McIntyre's Showtime (Christmas Day) – 643,000 18 Strictly Come Dancing Final (December 21) – 626,000 19 Nativity!
  • (6) We are obviously very concerned about the wellbeing of the fund, which is heavily invested in energy stocks worldwide,” said Pete Grannis, New York State deputy comptroller, whose office is the sole trustee of the fund, which has one million members.
  • (7) There’s no doubt that the grannies living in houses worth £2m are beneficiaries of the property boom, as their children and grandchildren will be.
  • (8) My granny, who was working incredibly hard in a fish factory, was not going to take the day off.
  • (9) In private all three parties are negotiating to find a consensus over the issue – and the government is aware of mounting anger among campaigners already smarting from the "granny tax" in March's budget.
  • (10) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
  • (11) As Miliband sought to defend the so-called mansion tax as a principled way of raising extra funding for the NHS, Klass said the levy would hit “little grannies” living in modest homes in London rather than the super-rich Miliband claimed to be targeting.
  • (12) Bronwyn Wolfe, London Makes 2 glasses 6 carrots 3 apples, such as granny smith 1 red pepper A thumbnail-sized knob of ginger 1 Top and tail the carrots; there's no need to peel them.
  • (13) My mum, her cousin, my granny – they’ve gone for 30 or 40 years and never told anyone,” Anna says.
  • (14) They think it’s just looking after granny.” Apprentices at aVida spend six blocks of 10 weeks in different parts of the organisation, which can include working with schedulers to put rosters together, going out with team leaders to see clients and shadowing managers.
  • (15) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
  • (16) The Gastronomy of Italy by Anna del Conte (Pavilion) Crispy apple dumplings with walnut butter and anise cream Braeburn and granny smith apples bring flavour and texture.
  • (17) My sister and I ended up watching the royal wedding at my granny’s house.
  • (18) Jim Moir, the man who turned BBC Radio 2 from granny's favourite station into a service that trendy thirtysomethings are happy to be caught listening to, has agreed to continue running the network for another year.
  • (19) Rather a lot of 'grannies' reside there; but contrary to popular belief I do not spend all day, every day making and repairing dentures!
  • (20) They have seen a summer campaign demonise him as an amalgam of Stalin, Hitler and Big Brother, bent on sending America's frail grannies to their deaths in the name of a new socialism.

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