gern

G2E1R1N1
/ɡɜː(ɹ)n/

verb

To grin.

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Meanings

verbgern (third-person singular simple present gerns, present participle gerning, simple past and past participle gerned)

present singular third person gerns · participle present gerning · participle past gerned · past gerned

  1. obsoleteTo grin.
  2. obsoleteTo yawn.

    [He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13

Origin

See grin.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with gern

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Sounds the same

gurn
Cite this entry
APA

gern. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gern

MLA

“gern.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gern. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gern,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gern.

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