An informal, folksy American dialectal spelling and pronunciation of 'grandfather' — the kind of warm, homespun variant you'd find in 19th-century rural literature or in the dialogue of old Western films. 'Grandpaw' carries a certain wholesome, front-porch energy: rocking chairs, tall tales, and hard candy from a shirt pocket. While rarely written in formal contexts, the pronunciation it represents is still common in parts of the American South and Midwest.
She used to sit on the porch with grandpaw every Sunday evening and listen to him talk about the old days.
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(US, dialect) grandfather.
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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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