different between granddaddy vs granddad

English

Alternative forms

• grandaddy

Etymology

grand- +? daddy

Noun

granddaddy (plural granddaddies)

1. (informal) A grandfather.
2. (informal) Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
   • 1957 December, All Hands, issues 480-491, page 24:

     The nature of this gas enables it to absorb the majority of the sun's ultraviolet rays, thus saving the human race from the granddaddy of all sunburns.

   • 2007, W. Randall Jones, Julie M. Fenster, The Greatest Stock Picks of All Time, Crown Business (?ISBN), page 245:

     In the far corner, representing the twentieth century, is the granddaddy of all common stocks, AT&T. Here is a company that earned its place in the pantheon of great stocks simply by increasing its dividend for an absurdly long period of time.

   • 2010, Sean Michael Flynn, Land of the Radioactive Midnight Sun: A Cheechako's First Year in Alaska, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 129:

     The region, with its twenty-two hours of summer daylight, is now known for its giant vegetables that include six-foot-wide cauliflower, eighteen-pound carrots, fifty-pound celery, and the granddaddy of all giant vegetables, the Alaskan cabbage ...

   • 2012, Earl Fee, The Wonder of It All, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN), page 173:

     A hundred years from now or two-hundred years from now they will speak of this tsunami of all tsunami's— the granddaddy of all tsunami's.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:grand-daddy.

Synonyms

• (grandfather): gramps, pops
• (most significant thing): mother (as mother of all), father, grandfather, grandmammy

Translations

References

• 2013, Christine Ammer, The Dictionary of Clichés: A Word Lover's Guide to 4,000 Overused Phrases and Almost-Pleasing Platitudes, Skyhorse (?ISBN):

  This colloquialism dates from about 1900 and is never applied to a person. For example, “That was the granddaddy of all hurricanes, according to the weather forecaster.” The Persian Gulf War of 1991 gave rise to a similar locution, the mother of all ...

English

Alternative forms

• grandad

Etymology

From grand- +? dad (“father”).

Pronunciation

Noun

granddad (plural granddads)

1. (informal) grandfather
2. A familiar or disparaging term of address to an old man.

Synonyms

• gramps
• granddaddy
• grandpa
• grandfather
• pops