grinsome

comparative more grinsome · superlative most grinsome

1. Characterised or marked by grinning.

   Grinder, winsome grinsome Grinder!

   1872, Charles Stuart Calverley, Fly leaves

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   [...] are continually on the grin and continually shaking hands either with each other or with equally grinsome French peasant women at cottage doors or with the local mayor who congratulates them on the glorious V.C.'s which, of course, they are continually winning.

   1917, Ward Muir, Observations of an Orderly

   The head waiter (who is uncommonly like Theo) will not know at lunch today why I am so dashed affable and grinsome to him. Good boy!

   1990, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pinney, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19