granam

English

Etymology 1

Noun

granam (plural granams)

1. Alternative form of grannom.

Etymology 2

Noun

granam (plural granams)

1. Alternative form of grannam.
   • c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature [E4], recto:

     Yor. [i.e., Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York] Mary they ſay, my Vnckle grew ſo faſt, / That he could gnaw a cruſt at two houres old: / Twas full two yeares ere I could get a tooth. / Granam this would haue heene^{[sic – meaning beene]} a biting ieſt. / Dut. [i.e., Cecily Neville, Duchess of York] I pray thee prety Yorke who tolde thee ſo. / Yor. Granam his nurſe.

   • 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act V, signature H, verso:

     I wud proue ’hem Mother beſt be truſt: why doe not I know you Granam? and that Suger-loafe? ha! doe I not Magæra.

   • 1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, signature H3, recto:

     By my granams ghoſt / ’Tis a holſome zaying, our vicar could not mend it / In the pulpit on a Zunday.

References

• “grannam, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000: “1500s– granam, grannam”.

Portuguese

Verb

granam

1. third-person plural present indicative of granar