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Grandchild vs Granddog - What's the difference?

grandchild | granddog |

As nouns the difference between grandchild and granddog

is that grandchild is a child of someone's child while granddog is a dog owned by the children of someone old enough to be a grandparent; a dog that has a similar role to a grandchild.

grandchild

Noun

(grandchildren)
  • A child of someone's child.
  • * 1912 , :
  • ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.

    Hyponyms

    * granddaughter * grandson

    Antonyms

    * (with regard to ancestry) grandparent

    granddog

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (humorous) A dog owned by the children of someone old enough to be a grandparent; a dog that has a similar role to a grandchild.
  • *{{quote-book, 2003, title=God's Messengers: What Animals Teach Us About the Divine, author=Allen Anderson, Linda Anderson, Allen Schoen
  • , passage=Only on rare occasions could Grandmother see her granddog , and both of them missed their visits.}}

    See also

    * dogren