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grandfetus

noun

Etymology

From grand- + fetus.

  1. learned borrowing from fētus — “offspring”
  2. prefixed as grandfetus — “grand + fetus”

Definitions

  1. A fetus of someone’s child.

    • Has any grandmother ever said that she will soon be able to refer to her grandfetus as a grandbaby?
    • A distinguished retired paediatrician telephoned me, concerned about his grandfetus which had been found through antenatal scanning to be one umbilical artery short.
    • I feel elated paying the twenty-some dollars to insure a decent night’s rest and a reduction of bed-envy toward my wholly innocent grandfetus.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA