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living proof your kids eventually pay for everything they put you through.
means The male child of your son or daughter — your grandchild, specifically the boy.
from A transparent compound of "grand" + "son." The "grand" here doesn't mean impressive but "one generation removed," borrowed from French grand- in words like grand-père ("grandfather"), itself echoing Latin grandis, "great." English stitched it onto its own native "son" (Old English sunu, a deep Germanic word with cousins across the family tree), giving us a "great-son" — the next link down the line.
- name math
- Often inherits a grandparent's name a generation later
- DNA share
- Carries roughly 25 percent of each grandparent's genes
- spoil rights
- Grandparents legally answer to no curfew rules
- sugar pipeline
- Returns home wired, then becomes parents' problem
- old word
- Term predates electricity by several centuries