Moan vs Girn - What's the difference?
moan | girn |
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* Prior
(obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To make a moan or similar sound.
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
(colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
(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 moan and girn
is that moan is a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure while girn is a vocalization similar to a cat's purring.As verbs the difference between moan and girn
is that moan is while girn is (label) to grimace; to snarl.moan
English
Verb
(en verb)- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- which infinitely moans me
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* moaner * moanySee also
* murmur * protest * lamentExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----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...
