grinny

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adjective

Having or resembling a grin.

“a grinny face”

Scrabble 10

Meanings

grinny1

adjectivegrinny (comparative more grinny, superlative most grinny)

comparative more grinny · superlative most grinny

  1. Having or resembling a grin.

    a grinny face

    1 more example

    That cheeky, grinny smile with those twinkly blue eyes

    2019, Liam Livings, Love on the Dancefloor, page 10

grinny2

noungrinny (plural grinnies)

plural grinnies · alternative grinnie

  1. PennsylvaniaWesternAn eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus.

    Reason thus, and if your heart beats till it hurts your ribs as a gray squirrel whisks across the dry leaves or a ‘grinny chipmunk’ waves you a derisive signal with his little flag from a log before your very nose, call yourself ‘fool,’ ‘idiot,’ anything that comes handy.

    [1898 November, B. W. Mitchell, “A Thanksgiving Deer Hunt in West Virginia”, in Outing, page 143

Origin

grinny · noun

The phrase "grinny chipmunk" is first attested in 1898 (see quotation below). Perhaps from Etymology 1 above.

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Chicago

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