An affectionate, informal American term for grandmother, typically used by young children or adults in Southern or rural US contexts. It carries warmth and familiarity, evoking home cooking, front porches, and the comforting matriarchal figures of American family life. The term is essentially interchangeable with 'grandma' but has a slightly more tender, childlike quality that makes it feel especially cosy in storytelling, nostalgia, and family conversation.
Every Thanksgiving, grandmommy made the kind of sweet potato pie that nobody else could ever quite replicate.
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(US, informal) grandmother.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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