girn

1. (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl.Examples: "At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil."dialectal

2. (Scotland, Northern England) To whinge, moan, complain.Examples: "And Jim was just girning all the time. I telled him to shut it."Northern-EnglandScotland

3. (intransitive) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.intransitive