grinning

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɹɪnɪŋ/ Rhymes: -ɪnɪŋ === Verb === grinning present participle and gerund of grin === Noun === grinning (countable and uncountable, plural grinnings) The act or expression of one who grins. 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History (essay in the Edinburgh Review) The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.