granddaddyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

grand- +‎ daddy

名詞

granddaddy (複数形 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.

同意語

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

形容詞

granddaddy (comparative granddaddier, superlative granddaddiest)

1. Big and impressive; very significant.
   • 1978 August 19, Tom Somach, “Life is not a spectator sport for Motor City’s Ted Nugent”, in The Morning Call, number 96:

     “It’s the grand-daddiest (bleep-bleepin’) (bleep-bleep) album you’ve ever seen,” he [Ted Nugent] said of it.

   • 1981 February 1, “In celebration of groundhog”, in The Argus, Rock Island, Ill., section “Sunday Argus Quad-Citian”, page 2:

     As sure as God made little green apples, spring arrived on March 21. It would have arrived with or without the groundhog’s prediction, but what would the TV media have done for news if it hadn’t been for Phil, the grand-daddiest groundhog of all time.

   • 1982, The Pembroke Magazine, page 150:

     The old patriarch would watch us, chewing his plug or sucking his dip, smiling, generous as unceasing tide, rejoicing with us when we’d bait the granddaddiest crab with tainted meat on strings, then swoop nets under to bring in old barnacle-back over the side of the rowboat.

   • 1986 April 6, Dave Henderson, quoting Charles Henderson, “Pothole poetry”, in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., page 16C:

     The grand-daddiest pothole of all / Lies along side the Oakdale Mall / It is bigger by far / Than a small foreign car / And unknown is the depth of it all.

   • 1986 December 31, John R. Olson, “Comeback glory soothes ’63 pain”, in The Capital Times, Madison, Wis., page 15:

     Certain auras surround most great bowl games and the titanic 1963 USC-UW struggle might just be the “granddaddiest of them all.”

   • 1990 April 15, Gene Zipperlen, “A small paper receives a big honor by providing an enormous service”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Tex., section 3, page 5:

     The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its six-year streak with an award for public service, the granddaddiest of the Pulitzers.

   • 1997 October 8, Kelly Egan, “Udder-ly beautiful bovine: Area-bred cow wins world title”, in Ottawa Citizen, page B1:

     The nine-year-old cow, bred at Boalcrest Farms just outside Pakenham, won the grand-daddy of prizes at the grand-daddiest dairy show on Earth: In effect, she was named the best show cow of any breed in the world.

   • 2001 November 2, Tom Shatel, “Check out how BCS computer works in fantasy sports world”, in Omaha World-Herald, page 2C:

     College Football Commissioner Keith Jackson said yesterday that this year’s College Football Championship game between Nebraska and Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl will be the grand-daddiest of them all.

   • 2006, Joseph Harry Silber, The Ecstasies of Willaert, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 237:

     It was huge, huge, the hugest oldest granddaddiest brookie this river had ever coughed Bunce’s way.

   • 2006 January 5, David White, “USC can’t pull out win this time”, in The Fresno Bee, page D1:

     USC had to go and try to top itself, teasing America’s attention one last time with a national championship at stake in the Rose Bowl, the grand-daddiest of theaters, Wednesday night.

   • 2015, Paul Haddad, 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 52 Walking Adventures, Santa Monica Press, →ISBN:

     In 600 steps, you’ll encounter the granddaddiest of all Studio City landmarks, known as the Sportsmen’s Lodge.

   • 2016 January 2, Daily Citizen, Beaver Dam, Wis., page C1:

     THE GRANDDADDIEST! Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey has record-setting performance in Cardinal’s rout of Hawkeyes

   • 2017, Dan Champagne, Seducer: Insurgence (volume II, book III of the Abaddon Trilogy), PonderHouse, →ISBN:

     I’ve heard of this asshole. Ivaylo, The Emperor. The granddaddiest of the Vrykolakas.

   • 2022, Ann Handley, Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 170:

     And perhaps the granddaddiest of all mondegreens: Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 lyric in “Purple Haze,” Scuse me while I kiss the sky).

参照

• 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 ...