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grinsome

grinsome adjective: characterised or marked by grinning.

Adjective

grinsome (comparative more grinsome, superlative most grinsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by grinning.
    • Grinder, winsome grinsome Grinder!1872, Charles Stuart Calverley, Fly leaves
    • [...] are continually on the grin and continually shaking hands either with each other or with equally grinsome French peasant women at cottage doors or with the local mayor who congratulates them on the glorious V.C.'s which, of course, they are continually winning.1917, Ward Muir, Observations of an Orderly

Forms of grinsome

comparativemore grinsome
superlativemost grinsome

Origin of grinsome

From grin + -some.

Questions about grinsome

What does grinsome mean?
Grinsome means characterised or marked by grinning.
What part of speech is grinsome?
Grinsome is an adjective.

Words near grinsome in the dictionary

  1. grins from ear to ear
  2. grins like a mule eating briars
  3. grins-and-giggles
  4. Grinsell
  5. Grinshill
  6. grinsome
  7. Grinspan syndrome
  8. Grinspan's syndrome
  9. Grinstead
  10. Grinsteads
  11. grinstone

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