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▪ I. girning, vbl. n.|ˈgɜːnɪŋ|
[f. girn v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb girn1.
1375Barbour Bruce xiii. 157 Ther wes..Sic gyrnyng, granyng; and so gret A noyis, as thai can othir bet. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 841 The Greyhound..at the first began to answer them with a soft girning; but when they came by the Tower where he lay, he barked out aloud. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xiii. 106 He..was..environed about so with the barking of Currs..girning of Boars. 1792A. Wilson Watty & Mag xxxviii, Owre the seas I march this morning, Listet, testet, sworn an a', Forc'd by your confounded girning. a1810Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1846) 105 Wi' girning her neb's like the gab o' the fleuk.
(Examples in sense *3 of the vb.)
1900Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 623/1 Girnin matches used to be a part of the local sports of Westmoreland. 1930Whitehaven News 25 Sept. 8/4 Mr. David Jackson has regained the title of ‘World's Gurning Champion’... This year we had ‘gurning’ at its best. 1949N. Nicholson Cumberland & Westmorland iii. ix. 196 Gurning consists of putting your head through a horse-collar and pulling the ugliest face possible. 1988People (Sydney) 4 Jan. 67/1 Gurning championships are held regularly in Europe and America.
▪ II. girning, ppl. a. Sc. and dial.|ˈgɜːnɪŋ|
Also 6 girnand, gerning.
[f. girn v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Sc. That ‘girns’; ill-humoured, snarling.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 86 Julyan..to hir seyd wyth chere gyrnyng Now [etc.]. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 85 With girnand teeth and awfull angrie luke. 1508Dunbar Tua mariit wemen 290 Quhen that the chuf wald me chid, with girnand chaftis. 1785Burns To W. Simpson xxviii, I've even seen them greetin Wi' girnin' spite. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxi, The cappernoity, old girning ale⁓wife may wait long enough or I forward it.
†2. Grinning. Obs. rare—1.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. xi. 227 That iest-mounging youth Who nere did ope his Apish gerning mouth But to retaile and broke anothers wit. |