Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who grins.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who grins.

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  • noun Agent noun of grin; one who grins.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who grins

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Examples

  • Now and forever, Mr. Elling is a hipster, a flipster and a finger-poppin 'daddy, but at the same time, he's a picker, a grinner, a lover and a sinner.

    Comebacks and Co-Conspirators Will Friedwald 2010

  • Get a load of the big grinner in the National Review t-shirt.

    Nips Ahoy!: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Pushing the grudges and grievances down to a civic level while grinning leaders stand for photo ops and sit for five star feeds, fronted by the organ-grinner himself, President Tony Blair, is a recipe for disaster.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Jeff 2009

  • Pushing the grudges and grievances down to a civic level while grinning leaders stand for photo ops and sit for five star feeds, fronted by the organ-grinner himself, President Tony Blair, is a recipe for disaster.

    Ireland and the Treaty of Lisbon Jeff 2009

  • Here Steve is telling us clearly that he is both a picker and a grinner.

    The Pompitous of Love 2008

  • Dear and he went on to scripple gentlemine born, milady bread, he would pen for her, he would pine for her,3 how he would patpun fun for all4 with his frolicky frowner so and his glumsome grinner otherso.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • April 19th, 2006 at 9:01 am and a grinner, and a joker, and a sinner?

    Firedoglake » The ‘Decider’ 2006

  • The someone was an admirably creepy walker and silent grinner.

    shaken & stirred Gwenda 2003

  • The someone was an admirably creepy walker and silent grinner.

    Archive 2003-03-01 Gwenda 2003

  • Of course a fresh paper was used for each, and wide indeed was the grin when the grinner realized the absurdity of having his smile measured!

    Marjorie's New Friend Carolyn Wells 1902

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