Groin in Scrabble and Meaning

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You can make 33 words from groin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of groin

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Definitions and meaning of groin

groin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹɔɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪn
• Homophone: groyne

Etymology 1

From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

Noun

groin (plural groins)

1. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
2. The area adjoining this fold or depression.

   He pulled a muscle in his groin.

3. (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
4. (euphemistic) The genitals.

   He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.

5. (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
6. (marine engineering) A rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from an ocean shore or a river bank, interrupting water flow and limiting the movement of sediment.

Coordinate terms

• inguinal

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Translations

Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.

   In the scrum he somehow got groined.

   She groined him and ran to the car.

2. (architecture) To build with groins.
3. (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.

Etymology 2

From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

Verb

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
     Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.

Etymology 3

Noun

groin (plural groins)

1. Alternative spelling of groyne

Anagrams

• Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French groing, gruing, from Late Latin grunium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁwɛ̃/

Noun

groin m (plural groins)

1. the snout of the pig

Further reading

• “groin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• giron

Middle English

Noun

groin

1. Alternative form of groyn