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单词 gurn
释义

gurn

/ɡəːn /
(also girn)
verb [no object]
1British Pull a grotesque face.Some people gurn and grimace and pull strange faces whenever a camera is waved near them, as if being caught without making a face would be somehow sneaky....
  • With her pointy-witch proboscis, she gurns and sneers at her audience like a ringmaster gripped by mad cow disease.
  • There's no sound, just a face looking down, as though into a toilet or a bowl of water, gurning and grimacing.
2 (usually girn) chiefly Scottish & Irish Complain peevishly.We are sleepwalking through a consumerist theme-park, girning about the government....
  • Although what he's got to girn about is anyone's guess.
  • Instead of girning about Westminster we girn about Holyrood.

Derivatives

gurner

noun ...
  • If you're voted as gurner of the month by those nice sane folk on the internet, you'll receive a Cumbrian facial pack (two slices of cucumber and some Lake District mud).
  • These outsiders have provided a wholly different perspective from our home-grown whingers and girners.
  • What this makes them I'm not sure, since they seem to spend an awful lot of time in their metropolitan bolt-holes girning about girners.

Origin

Early 20th century: dialect variant of grin.

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