grinning
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɪnɪŋ/
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Verb
grinning
- present participle of grin
- I’m grinning because someone told me a joke.
Noun
grinning (countable and uncountable, plural grinnings)
- The act or expression of one who grins.
- 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History (essay in the Edinburgh Review)
- The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.
- 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History (essay in the Edinburgh Review)