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Definition of Girning
1. Noun. (Northern England) A light-hearted competition in which people girn (make elaborate faces) through a horse collar; most popular in rural parts of England. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Girning
1. girn [v] - See also: girn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girning
Literary usage of Girning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music, with Some Account by Wiliam Laird Manson (1901)
"Like a' the girning piper race " shows that the pipe then commonly used in Jedburgh
was the Lowland, as that inflated with the mouth prevented ..."
2. The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith by David Macbeth Moir (1868)
"I thought all the sheep-heads were looking at one another, and then girn-girning
at me. At last I grew desperate; and my hair was as stiff as wire, ..."
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