girn
1 Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
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to snarl
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to grimace; pull grotesque faces
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to complain fretfully or peevishly
Etymology
Origin of girn
C14: a variant of grin
Example Sentences
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Oh! folks they laugh and girn at me, ��� I niver tak it ill; If I's the Jack 'o ivery trade, ��� They all bring grist to t' mill.
From Songs of the Ridings by Moorman, Frederic William
What gies him that side-look, that fearfu girn, an' his slouchin walk!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
"Ye needn't girn that away, Jane Browst," whispered Aunt Perrine, emphatically.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
It's nae laughing to girn in a widdy.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
He can only bide in his hole like a toothless tyke, lame and blind; and girn his gums at the robbers that spoil his master's house.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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