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Girn   Listen
verb
Girn  v. i.  To grin. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Girn" Quotes from Famous Books



... then. I said to wait till the New Year...." Her voice changed, and he perceived that she was making use of the strange power to carry on disputes with the dead which is possessed by widows. The tone was a complete reconstruction of her marriage. There was a girn in it, as if she had learned to expect contradiction and disregard as the habitual response to all her remarks, and at the back of that a terror, far more dignified than the protest to which it gave birth, at the dreadful things she knew would happen ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West



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