groin
/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/
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Ireland/ˈɡɹɑɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɒɪ̯n/
groin noun: the crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. Also the US standard spelling of groyne.
Noun
groin (plural groins)
- The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
- The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022
- The area adjoining this fold or depression.
- He pulled a muscle in his groin.
- The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
- The surface formed by two such vaults.
- The genitals.
- He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
- My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5
Verb (1)
groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
- To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
- In the scrum he somehow got groined.
- She groined him and ran to the car.
- To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
- The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50
- To hollow out; to excavate.
- Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting
Verb (2)
groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
- To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
- Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
- Beares, that groynd continually1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27
Also used as
groin is also the US standard spelling of groyne.
groin meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada and Tagalog
groin in Hindi
- long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs
- ऊसन्धि ūsandhi, उरुसंधि urusandhi
groin in Bengali
- long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs
- কুঁচকি kũcoki
groin in Kannada
- ತೊಡೆಸಂದು
groin in Tagalog
- long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs
- puklo
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- groin in Arabic
- أُرْبِيَّة ʔurbiyya, مَغْبَن maḡban
- groin in Persian
- کشاله ران kašâle-ye rân, کشاله kašâle
- groin in Thai
- หน้าขา, ขาหนีบ, ง่ามขา
- groin in Vietnamese
- háng, vùng bẹn, bẹn
- groin in Myanmar
- ပေါင်ခြံ paunghkram
Examples of groin in a sentence
- When I blocked her from leaving, she kneed me in the groin.
- When the small intestine herniates into the groin, one has an inguinal hernia.
- The standover should be less than the height above ground of the rider's groin.
Forms of groin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | groins |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | groins |
| present participle | groining |
| past participle | groined |
| past | groined |
Origin of groin
From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).
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Questions about groin
- What does groin mean?
- Groin means the crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
- What is groin in Hindi?
- Groin in Hindi is ऊसन्धि (ūsandhi), उरुसंधि (urusandhi). See Groin meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is groin?
- Groin can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce groin?
- Groin is pronounced /ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/.
- What is the plural of groin?
- The plural of groin is groins.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: groin (page history and authors); groin (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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