Girn

To wit: "And yet," says he, all chapfallen, "I fear me he will find occasion to clatter at my lady's ear, and mow and girn for his cracked pate to move her pity - and seest thou, father, it will look ill for me, a tenant oppressed crying Justice! and I can do nowt for him, wanting power at hand, and but the bailiff." ❋ Eddvick (2008)

And then they stretch out their faces, and make mouths, and girn at me, and whichever way ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our board was full of words like larum and girn and ghat and revet. ❋ JODI PICOULT (2005)

Edinburgh, of course, was full of them, just as it was full of hills, biting winds, and people who liked to girn about things like hills and stairs and the wind ... ❋ Rankin, Ian, 1960- (1992)

"That's some o 'Robbie Boath's wark," he says in laich till himsel ', wi' an awfu 'girn on his face. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

Contemporaries_: "Hunt has behaved like a hyena to Byron, whom he has dug up to girn and howl over him in the same breath." ❋ Margaret Ball (N/A)

There was a girn in it, as if she had learned to expect contradiction and disregard as the habitual response to all her remarks, and at the back of that a terror, far more dignified than the protest to which it gave birth, at the dreadful things she knew would happen because she was disregarded, and a small, weak, guilty sense that she had not made her protest loudly and, perhaps, cleverly enough. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

"I won't girn any more if you'll court me," she promised. ❋ St. John G. Ervine (1927)

Then your faither -- his God do sit everlastingly alongside hell-mouth, an 'laugh an' girn to see all the world a walkin 'in, same as the beasts walked in the ❋ Eden Phillpotts (1911)

Dour an 'din he was, wi' ae girn like th 'auld hornie. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

She has a way of glowerin 'a body and giving a bit of a girn to her mouth. ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)

The bergs like kelpies overside that girn an 'turn an' shift ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Weel, it wad appear that when he askit that, she gave a girn that fairly frichtit them that saw her, an 'they could hear her teeth play dirl thegether in her chafts; but there was naething for it but the ae way or the ither; an' Janet lifted up her hand and renounced the deil before them a '. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)

"I mind it, sure enough," interjected Stackhouse, "and fowks began to girn, for they knew there was ivery cause an '' pediment why he sud wed her." ❋ Frederic William Moorman (1895)

"[Aidan] was [totally] girning in every [photo]" ❋ Georgia H (2007)

John: Did you see that [cougar] [hitting on] Steve last night? Matt: Was she a [Milf]? John: No she was a Girn ❋ James D Frame (2008)

girn ❋ Crazybot123 (2012)