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Definition of "girn" [girn]

  • Scots To complain in a whining voice. (verb-intransitive)
  • Scots To contort one's face; grimace. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "girn" in a sentence
  • "To wit: "And yet," says he, all chapfallen, "I fear me he will find occasion to clatter at my lady's ear, and mow and girn for his cracked pate to move her pity - and seest thou, father, it will look ill for me, a tenant oppressed crying Justice! and I can do nowt for him, wanting power at hand, and but the bailiff.""
  • "And then they stretch out their faces, and make mouths, and girn at me, and whichever way"
  • "Our board was full of words like larum and girn and ghat and revet."
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