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Definition of Grinner
1. Noun. A person who grins.
Definition of Grinner
1. n. One who grins.
Definition of Grinner
1. Noun. Agent noun of grin; one who grins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grinner
1. one that grins [n -S] - See also: grins
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grinner
Literary usage of Grinner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Round about My Garden ; The Incomplete Angler by Francis Cowley Burnand (1876)
"... TH E grinner— CONVERSATION—NOTIONS—DINNER. ANY ladies disappear at once.
My Aunt does this immediately, and has got hold of the Stewardess in a corner. ..."
2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... and be looked upon as the best grinner in the country, he ordered the oaths
to be tendered unto him upon his quitting the table, which the grinner ..."
3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"Addison tells us of a famous grinner who threw his face into the shape of the
head of a base viol, of a hat, of the mouth of a coffee-pot, and the nozzle of ..."
4. English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Sir Richard Steele, Joseph by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, William Makepeace Thackeray (1906)
"... and be looked upon as the best grinner in the country, he ordered the oaths
to be tendered unto him upon his quitting the table, which the grinner ..."
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