Girned vs Gerned - What's the difference?
girned | gerned |
(girn)
(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:
(gern)
(obsolete) To grin.
(obsolete) To yawn.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between girned and gerned
is that girned is (girn) while gerned is (gern).girned
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(head)Anagrams
*girn
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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...
See also
* gowlAnagrams
* * *gerned
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(head)gern
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(en verb)- [He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern .