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grin

See also: grín and grîn

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: grĭn, IPA(key): /ɡɹɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1 edit

Before 1000 CE - From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, of Germanic origin and probably related to groan. Compare to Old High German grennan (“to mutter”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”)

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Noun edit

 
A stylized grin.

grin (plural grins)

  1. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
    • 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, Simon & Schuster, page 364:
      When the ceremony was finished a wide grin broke across his face, and it was that grin she saw, relieved and happy all at once.
    • 2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor:
      When my son appeared at the door the next day with his schoolbag on his back, the Professor broke into a wide grin and opened his arms to embrace him.
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Verb edit

grin (third-person singular simple present grins, present participle grinning, simple past and past participle grinned)

  1. (intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
    Why do you grin?  Did I say something funny?
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
  2. (transitive) To express by grinning.
    She grinned pleasure at his embarrassment.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"
  3. (intransitive, dated) To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
  4. (transitive) To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.
    He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result.
    He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.
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Etymology 2 edit

From Old English grin.

Noun edit

grin (plural grins)

  1. (obsolete) A snare; a gin.
    • c. 14th century, unknown author (originally attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer), Remedy of Love
      Like a bridde that hasteth to the grynne.

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Bislama edit

Etymology edit

From English green.

Adjective edit

grin

  1. green

Danish edit

 
Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology edit

See grine (“to laugh”)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɡriːn/, [ɡ̊ʁiːˀn]

Noun edit

grin n (singular definite grinet, plural indefinite grin)

  1. laugh
  2. grin
  3. fun

Declension edit

Declension of grin
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative grin grinet grin grinene
genitive grins grinets grins grinenes

Verb edit

grin

  1. imperative of grine

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From the verb grine.

Noun edit

grin n (definite singular grinet, indefinite plural grin, definite plural grina or grinene)

  1. a grimace
  2. a sneer

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Etymology 1 edit

From the verb grine, grina.

Noun edit

grin n (definite singular grinet, indefinite plural grin, definite plural grina)

  1. a grimace
  2. a sneer

Etymology 2 edit

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grin

  1. inflection of grina:
    1. present
    2. imperative

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Old English edit

Etymology edit

Unknown.

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Noun edit

grin m

  1. snare
  2. noose

Declension edit

Declension of grin (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative grin grinas
accusative grin grinas
genitive grines grina
dative grine grinum

Descendants edit

  • English: grin

Tok Pisin edit

Etymology edit

From English green.

Adjective edit

grin

  1. green

Vilamovian edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German grüene, from Old High German gruoni.

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grīn

  1. green
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