gran'py

From gran'pa +‎ -y.

gran'py (plural gran'pies)

1. Alternative form of grampy.
   • 1952 October, William Wells, “Jinkey Wells (from a conversation recorded in October, 1952)”, in Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, volume VIII, number 1, London: English Folk Dance and Song Society, published 1956, →ISSN, →OCLC, “William Wells 1868-1953: Morris Dancer, Fiddler and Fool” section, page 1:

     His name was Tom, but he was called ‘Jingle’. Well, none of his sons never had the nickname—not to stick to ’em—till it come to my Gran’py; instead of calling him ‘Jingle’, it got to ‘Jinkey’; […]

   • 1960, Nancy Faulkner, chapter 7, in Mystery at Long Barrow House, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88:

     Becky looked at his lame leg, thinking how sad it was for him that he couldn’t dance in the sword dance as his father and grandfather and great-grandfather had danced it. / He saw her look and understood her thought and put his hand on her shoulder. “My Gran’py,” he went on, “will play the fiddle, seeing he’s too old to dance now. […]”

   • 2010 December 10, Rocsanne Shield, “The City-corporation”, in Save Magic City, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:

     I can say what I've done till now – meeting with Claude, the banker; proposed pairing needs with volunteers, and Squirrel gave it a name, forming a granny/gran'py group for immediate help; must still talk with the corporate rep. Then, we need money, food-stuffs and jobs for which I have no idea how to conjure…