goodsire
An old Scots word for grandfather, combining 'good' (used in Scots as an honorific prefix for family relationships) with 'sire.' Goodsire sits alongside other Scots family terms like 'goodmother' and
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An old Scots word for grandfather, combining 'good' (used in Scots as an honorific prefix for family relationships) with 'sire.' Goodsire sits alongside other Scots family terms like 'goodmother' and 'goodfather,' which use 'good' where standard English uses 'grand.' While largely archaic in everyday speech, goodsire survives in historical texts, genealogical records, and occasionally in literary Scots.
The family tree records showed that her goodsire had sailed from Leith to Nova Scotia sometime in the 1820s.
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(Scotland) A grandfather.
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