girn

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[ gurn ]

verb (used with or without object), nounScot.

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girn2
[ gurn ]

noun, verb (used with object)Scot.

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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
  1. to snarl

  2. to grimace; pull grotesque faces

  1. to complain fretfully or peevishly

Origin of girn

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C14: a variant of grin

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