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grinning

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɡɹɪnɪŋ//

The act or expression of one who grins.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of grinpresent participle and gerund of grin

    I’m grinning because someone told me a joke.

noun

  1. 1

    The act or expression of one who grins.

    The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.

Forms

plural
grinnings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).