At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
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Girn
//ɡɜː(ɹ)n//
Synonyms for "girn" (7 found)
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And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.
Source: wiktionary
A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...
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