Girn vs Girning - What's the difference?
girn | girning |
(label) To grimace; to snarl.
*1999 , (Jessica Stirling), The Wind from the Hills , St Martin's Press.
To whinge, moan, complain.
*2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 107:
(label) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.
A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.
*2002 , edited by Richard J. Davidson, Handbook of Affective Sciences , Oxford University Press, p. 569:
As nouns the difference between girn and girning
is that girn is a vocalization similar to a cat's purring 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 girn
is (label) to grimace; to snarl.girn
English
Alternative forms
* gurn * gurneVerb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...