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Firns vs Girns – What’s the difference?

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Firns vs Girns - What's the difference?
As a noun firns is .

As a verb girns is (girn).

firns

English

Noun

(head)

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    girns

    English

    Verb

    (head)

  • (girn)

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    girn

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gurn
    * gurne

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • (label) To grimace; to snarl.
  • *1999 , (Jessica Stirling), The Wind from the Hills , St Martin’s Press.
  • To whinge, moan, complain.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 107:
  • (label) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

    • Noun

    (en noun )

  • A vocalization similar to a cat’s purring.
  • *2002 , edited by Richard J. Davidson, Handbook of Affective Sciences , Oxford University Press, p. 569:
    • A different vocalization, a girn, simiular to a cat’s purring, was observed in infants reunited with their mothers…

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    * gowl

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