A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg girn PRONUNCIATION: (gurn) MEANING: verb intr.: To snarl, grimace, or complain. noun: A grimace or snarl. ETYMOLOGY: By transposition of the word grin, from Old English grennian (to show teeth). Earliest documented use: 1440. USAGE: At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil. Jessica Stirling; The Wind from the Hills; St Martins Press; 1999. See more usage examples of girn in Vocabularys dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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