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grinner|ˈgrɪnə(r)| [f. grin v.2 + -er1.] One who grins, in senses of the vb.
c1440Promp. Parv. 210/1 Grennare, or he that grynnythe. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits vi. (1596) 85 This..maketh men blockish, sluggards, and grynnars, because they want imagination. 1694Poet Buffoon'd 1 One Smiler and two hundred Grinners. 1713Steele Guardian No. 29 ⁋5 We may range the several kinds of laughers under the following heads:..The Smilers. The Laughers. The Grinners. 1779F. Burney Diary 26 May. He went up to the biggest grinner, and shaking him violently by the shoulders, said [etc.]. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. iv. 667 Whose first bleat..Will strike the grinners grave. |