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Girding vs Girning - What's the difference?

girding | girning |

As nouns the difference between girding and girning

is that girding is a binding or encircling while girning is (northern england) a light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of england.

As a verb girding

is .

girding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A binding or encircling.
  • * 1823 , Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time (page 23)
    • Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied

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    girning

    English

    (Gurn)

    Alternative forms

    * gurning

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England) A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England.

    • Related terms

    * girn verb

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