girn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.
    — A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...
动词 v.
  1. To grimace; to snarl. dialectal
    — At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
  2. To whinge, moan, complain. Northern-England,Scotland
    — And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.
  3. To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. intransitive

词形变化

girns present,singular,third-person girning participle,present girned participle,past girned past gurn alternative gurne alternative girns plural gurn alternative gurne alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gyrnen, a metathesised form of grinnen, grennen. More at grin.
词源 2
From Middle English gyrnen, a metathesised form of grinnen, grennen. More at grin.
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