Girned vs Girted - What's the difference?
girned | girted |
(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:
(girt)
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
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(gird)
(nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
As verbs the difference between girned and girted
is that girned is past tense of girn while girted is past tense of girt.girned
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Verb
(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...