girn

[gurn]

verb (used with or without object), noun Scot.

grin¹.

girn

[gurn]

noun, verb (used with object) Scot.

grin².

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Historical Examples of girn

And he gave a girn, that stretched his mouth from ear to ear.
The Life of Mansie Wauch
David Macbeth Moir
She has a way of glowerin' a body and giving a bit of a girn to her mouth.
The Northern Iron
George A. Birmingham
The girn, my informant said, was never out its face, and it yammered on night and day.
Folk Lore
James Napier
She'll come to hell efter me to girn at me, an' set them on me wi' their reid het taings, and curse me.
Robert Falconer
George MacDonald

British Dictionary definitions for girn

girn

verb (intr) Scot and Northern English dialect

to snarl
to grimace; pull grotesque faces
to complain fretfully or peevishly

Word Origin for girn

C14: a variant of grin

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