GRANDADDY

granddaddy [noun] [C] - US informal for grandfather(US informal) As my old grandaddy used to say, hard work never hurt no one.(figurative) 'Modern Times' is a classic comedy starring Charlie Chaplin, the grandaddy of (= one of the first, greatest and most influential) comic film actors.(figurative) There was a grandaddy of a (= a very great) crash when the storm blew down a tree outside our house.