granniness

— In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen with such coarsenesses as ‘. . . and she found another husband not too shy to piss into a pot’ as to scare her with warnings about men whose eyebrows meet: you feel there is more to this gabby old woman than her granniness, especially when she herself encounters a fate out of the played-up Little Red Riding Hood theme.