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Groin

//ɡɹɔɪn// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

    "The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of groyne. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away wordnet
  4. 4
    The area adjoining this fold or depression.

    "He pulled a muscle in his groin."

  5. 5
    a curved edge formed by two intersecting vaults wordnet
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  1. 6
    The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  2. 7
    the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals wordnet
  3. 8
    The surface formed by two such vaults.
  4. 9
    The genitals. euphemistic

    "He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain."

Verb
  1. 1
    To deliver a blow to the genitals of.

    "In the scrum he somehow got groined."

  2. 2
    To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

    "Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,"

  3. 3
    build with groins wordnet
  4. 4
    To build with groins.
  5. 5
    To hollow out; to excavate. literary, transitive

    "Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Etymology 2

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Etymology 3

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

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