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Webster 1828 Edition


Grinning

GRIN'NING

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ppr.
Closing the teeth and showing them, as in laughter; a showing of the teeth.

Definition 2024


grinning

grinning

English

Verb

grinning

  1. present participle of grin
    I’m grinning because someone told me a joke.

Noun

grinning (plural grinnings)

  1. The act or expression of one who grins.
    • Thomas Babington Macaulay
      The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.