girn

[ gurn ]

/ gɜrn /

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

grin¹.

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girlish, girl-o, Girls' Brigade, girl scout, Girl Scouts of the United States of America, girn, giro, girolle, giron, Girona, Gironde

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girn²

[ gurn ]

/ gɜrn /

noun, verb (used with object) Scot.

grin².

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How to use girn in a sentence

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
The girn, my informant said, was never out its face, and it yammered on night and day.
Folk Lore|James Napier
Can He no shift it frae the tae airm to the tither, but the bairn maun girn?
The Elect Lady|George MacDonald
And he gave a girn, that stretched his mouth from ear to ear.
The Life of Mansie Wauch|David Macbeth Moir

I thought all the sheep-heads were looking at one another, and then girn-girning at me.
The Life of Mansie Wauch|David Macbeth Moir

British Dictionary definitions for girn

girn

/ (ɡərn, ɡɜːn) /

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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