girned

Verb

girn (third-person singular simple present girns, present participle girning, simple past and past participle girned)

1. (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl.
   • The poor lass was sitting bemoaning herself - "Were it nae for thy girning face, I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167
2. (Northern England, Scotland) To whinge, moan, complain.
   • And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 107
3. (intransitive) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

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