"gurn" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gurn.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gurns [plural]
Etymology: Early 20th century: dialect variant of grin. Etymology templates: {{m|en|grin}} grin Head templates: {{en-noun}} gurn (plural gurns)
  1. (British) A distorted facial expression; grimace. Tags: British Categories (topical): Facial expressions Translations (distorted facial expression): irvistys (Finnish), grimas [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-gurn-en-noun-S2b9OSQN Disambiguation of Facial expressions: 78 22 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 85 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 82 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: girn

Verb

IPA: /ɡɜː(ɹ)n/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gurn.wav [Southern-England] Forms: gurns [present, singular, third-person], gurning [participle, present], gurned [participle, past], gurned [past]
Etymology: Early 20th century: dialect variant of grin. Etymology templates: {{m|en|grin}} grin Head templates: {{en-verb}} gurn (third-person singular simple present gurns, present participle gurning, simple past and past participle gurned)
  1. (British) To make a grotesque or funny face; to grimace. Tags: British Derived forms: gurner
    Sense id: en-gurn-en-verb-bnPU9PSh Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: girn

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for gurn meaning in English (3.7kB)

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