girn /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/verb 3noun 1forms 3 verb3 •To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. •(dialect) 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 •(Scotland, Northern-England) To whinge, moan, complain.And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it. — 2008 noun1 •A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers... — 2002 formsgirned · girning · girns
