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▪ I. grinning, vbl. n.|ˈgrɪnɪŋ|
[f. grin v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. grin.
a1225Ancr. R. 212 Hwu þe ateliche deouel schal ȝet agesten ham mid his grimme grennunge. c1450Bk. Curtasye 29 in Babees Bk., Grennynge & mowynge at þi table eschewe. 1530Palsgr. 227/2 Grennyng, makyng of an yvell Countynaunce. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb) 116 In the one hir grinning will shew hir deformed. 1607Topsell. Four-f. Beasts (1658) 371 Turning himself with a scornful grinning, he fighteth with all his force against the Dogs. 1689Wood Life 30 Nov. (O.H.S.) III. 80 Grinning and rejoycing of phanatiques upon the news of the conspirators being bayl'd. 1711Addison Spect. No. 173 ⁋6 A great Master in the whole Art of Grinning. 1861Thackeray Four Georges 85 The old poets have sung a hundred jolly ditties about great cudgel-playings, famous grinning through horse-collars..and morris-dances.
attrib.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 695 The contraction of the levatores anguli oris, which gives the grinning expression peculiar to tetanus.
b. Comb., grinning-match, a competition in grinning or grimacing (see also horse-collar).
1711Addison Spect. No. 173 ⁋5 An Account..of one of these Grinning-Matches. 1801[see horse-collar]. 1812Sporting Mag. XL. 18 Mr. Shanks..contrived to assemble his customers with a grinning-match. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 675 Grinning matches, through a horse-collar.
▪ II. grinning, ppl. a.|ˈgrɪnɪŋ|
[f. grin v.2 + -ing2.]
That grins, in senses of the vb.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxx. 80 Hornes or grennyng teeth to aferen fooles. 1561Child Marriages 117 She..callid hym ‘grinninge thief’. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. vii. 24 Seeming wondrous glad, That by his grenning laughter mote farre off be rad. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iii. 62, I like not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath; give me life. 1599Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii, And I have a scurvy grinning laugh a' mine own. 1688Ld. Delamere Wks. (1694) 75 To pinch your Servants bellies to make entertainments, is a piece of grinning honour. 1742Gray Distant Prosp. Eton Coll. 74 To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iii. ii, O'er their shrine Sate grinning Ribaldry and sneering Scorn. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlvi. (1856) 423 No earthly covering masks the grinning rocks of Pröven.
Hence ˈgrinningly adv.
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