Girn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Girn is a verb meaning (Scotland, Northern England) To whinge, moan, complain.
Meaning
(Scotland, Northern England) To whinge, moan, complain.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.
- A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.
- (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl.
Example Sentences
And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.
At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers.
Word Forms
- girns
- girning
- girned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include groin, grin, gnar, gurl, gnarl, gimble.
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