A warm Southern and Midwestern American dialectal term for grandmother, reflecting the broad, drawn-out vowels of regional speech.
A warm Southern and Midwestern American dialectal term for grandmother, reflecting the broad, drawn-out vowels of regional speech. 'Grandmaw' is the kind of word that carries a whole sensory world with it — screen doors, sweet tea, and Sunday dinners. It's used affectionately and unselfconsciously in families across Appalachia, the Deep South, and parts of the Midwest, and it often signals close family bonds rather than any particular formality.
Every summer he drove five hours to visit grandmaw, who always had a pie cooling on the windowsill when he arrived.
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(US, dialect) grandmother.
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