This week's theme
Words formed by metathesis (a transposition of sounds)

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mullion
sprattle
brummagem
pernancy
girn

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Rhetorical devices

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PRONUNCIATION:

(gurn)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To snarl, grimace, or complain.
noun: A grimace or snarl.

ETYMOLOGY:

By transposition of the word grin, from Old English grennian (to show teeth). Earliest documented use: 1440.

USAGE:

"At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil."
Jessica Stirling; The Wind from the Hills; St Martin's Press; 1999.

See more usage examples of girn in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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