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  • granny woman — noun see granny I, 2 * * * granny woman, U.S. Dialect. granny (a nurse or midwife) …   Useful english dictionary

  • Granny women — were healers and midwives in Southern Appalachia and the Ozark Mountains, documented as practicing from the 1880s to the 1930s. They were usually elder women in the community and were often the only practitioners of healthcare in the poor rural… …   Wikipedia

  • Granny (Looney Tunes) — Granny, a co star of many Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird animated shorts throughout the 1950s and 60s, is a Looney Tunes character that was created by Friz Freleng. She is always depicted as an elderly and old fashioned spinster who wears… …   Wikipedia

  • Granny — Gran ny, n. A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. [1913 Webster] {Granny s bend}, or {Granny s knot} (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Granny's bend — Granny Gran ny, n. A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. [1913 Webster] {Granny s bend}, or {Granny s knot} (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Granny's knot — Granny Gran ny, n. A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. [1913 Webster] {Granny s bend}, or {Granny s knot} (Naut.), a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • granny — or grannie [gran′ē] n. pl. grannies Informal 1. a grandmother 2. an old woman 3. any fussy, exacting person ☆ 4. South a midwife adj. of a style like that formerly worn by many elderly women [granny nightgown ]; specif., designating eyeglas …   English World dictionary

  • Granny Weatherwax — infobox Discworld character| name=Esmerelda Weatherwax description=A witch who rarely needs to use magic associations=Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick, Agnes Nitt location=Lancre firstseen= Equal Rites alsoin= Wyrd Sisters , Witches Abroad , Lords and… …   Wikipedia

  • Granny Goodness — Superherobox| caption=Granny Goodness, with Desaad Art by Karl Kerschl character name=Granny Goodness publisher=DC Comics debut= Mister Miracle vol. 1 #2 (May 1971) creators=Jack Kirby (writer artist) real name=Goodness species = New God… …   Wikipedia

  • granny — /gran ee/, n., pl. grannies, adj. grannier, granniest for 6. n. 1. Informal. a grandmother. 2. an elderly woman. 3. a fussy person. 4. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. a nurse or midwife. 5. See granny knot. adj. 6. of, pertaining to, or thought …   Universalium

  • granny + last name —    Elderly women are addressed by doctors and nurses in this way in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori. The practice perhaps has a certain convenience in medical circumstances, avoiding the need to distinguish between ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’. It is also… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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