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Grinning vs Giggling - What's the difference?

grinning | giggling |

As verbs the difference between grinning and giggling

is that grinning is while giggling is .

As nouns the difference between grinning and giggling

is that grinning is the act or expression of one who grins while giggling is the act of producing giggles; high-pitched laughter.

grinning

English

Verb

(head)
    • I’m grinning because someone told me a joke.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or expression of one who grins.
  • * (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
    • The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.

    giggling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of producing giggles; high-pitched laughter
  • * 1959 , Boys' Life (volume 49, number 5, May 1959, page 56)
    • Once there, he blushingly went through the procedure, having to fold and refold the flag about three times, to the twitterings and gigglings of twelve little girls.