grinnern.
/ˈɡrɪnə/, U.S. /ˈɡrɪnər/ One who grins, in senses of the verb.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [noun] > one who smiles > one who grins
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 210/1 Grennare, or he that grynnythe.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits vi. 85 This..maketh men blockish, sluggards, and grynnars, because they want imagination.
1694 Poet Buffoon'd 1 One Smiler and two hundred Grinners.
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Apr. 1/2 We may range the several Kinds of Laughers under the following Heads..The Smilers, The Laughers, The Grinners.
1779 F. Burney Let. 27 May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. He went up to the biggest Grinner, & shaking him violently by the shoulders, said [etc.].
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 30 Whose first bleat..Will strike the grinners grave.
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