Girn

Alternative forms

• gurn
• gurne

Origin

Metathesized form of grin.

Full definition of girn

Verb

1. (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl.
2. (Scotland, northern England) To whinge, moan, complain.
• 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 107:And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.
3. (intransitive) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

Anagrams

• grin
• NGRI
• ring, Ring