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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 MacDonaldThe girn, my informant said, was never out its face, and it yammered on night and day.
Folk Lore | James NapierCan He no shift it frae the tae airm to the tither, but the bairn maun girn?
The Elect Lady | George MacDonaldAnd he gave a girn, that stretched his mouth from ear to ear.
The Life of Mansie Wauch | David Macbeth MoirI 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
/ (ɡərn, ɡɜːn) /
to snarl
to grimace; pull grotesque faces
to complain fretfully or peevishly
Origin of girn
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