What does girn mean?
Girn means (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl..
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/ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ · verb
(dialectal) To grimace; to snarl..
At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.
A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...
Use girn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Girn means (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl..
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At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
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