grandmother
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ər, ˈgrænd-, ˈgræm-
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| —n | |
| 1. | the mother of one's father or mother |
| 2. | (often plural) a female ancestor |
| 3. | (often capital) a familiar term of address for an old woman |
| 4. | teach one's grandmother to suck eggs See egg |
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Grandmother
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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He visits his grandmother, his mixedrace uncle dode staying with her.
His mother died at an early age and he was raised mainly by his grandmother.
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