Girn vs Garn - What's the difference?
girn | garn |
As nouns the difference between girn and garn is that girn is a vocalization similar to a cat's purring while garn is yarn. As a verb girn is ( label) to grimace; to snarl.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
girn English
Alternative forms
* gurn
* gurne
Verb
( en verb)
(label) To grimace; to snarl.
*1999 , (Jessica Stirling), The Wind from the Hills , St Martin's Press.
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To whinge, moan, complain.
*2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 107:
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(label) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.
Noun
( en noun)
A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.
*2002 , edited by Richard J. Davidson, Handbook of Affective Sciences , Oxford University Press, p. 569:
- A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...
See also
* gowl
Anagrams
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garn English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gearn. Compare also Danish and Old Norse garn.
Noun
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(obsolete) yarn (twisted fibers for weaving)
Etymology 2
From .
Interjection
( en interjection)
* 1912 , (George Bernard Shaw), :
- Mrs Pearce: She may be married.
- Liza: Garn!
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