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What does girn mean? Is girn a Scrabble word?

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Is girn a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word girn is a Scrabble US word. The word girn is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

G2I1R1N1

Is girn a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word girn is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

G2I1R1N1

Is girn a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word girn is a Words With Friends word. The word girn is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3I1R1N2

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Valid words made from Girn

You can make 9 words from 'girn' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'girn'

GIRN 5GRIN 5
RING 5 

3 letters words from 'girn'

GIN 4ING 4
RIG 4RIN 3

2 letters words from 'girn'

GI 3IN 2

All 4 letters words made out of girn

girn igrn grin rgin irgn rign ginr ignr gnir ngir ingr nigr grni rgni gnri ngri rngi nrgi irng ring inrg nirg rnig nrig

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word girn. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in girn.

Definitions and meaning of girn

girn

Alternative forms

  • gurn
  • gurne

Etymology

Metathesized form of grin.

Verb

girn (third-person singular simple present girns, present participle girning, simple past and past participle girned)

  1. (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl.
    • 1999, Jessica Stirling, The Wind from the Hills, St Martin's Press.
      At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.
  2. (Scotland, Northern England) To whinge, moan, complain.
    • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 107:
      And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it.
  3. (intransitive) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

Noun

girn (plural girns)

  1. A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.
    • 2002, edited by Richard J. Davidson, Handbook of Affective Sciences, Oxford University Press, p. 569:
      A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat's purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers...

See also

  • gowl

Anagrams

  • NGRI, Ring, grin, ring

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (dialect) to grin, make faces.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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