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English
Etymology
From grin + -some.
Adjective
grinsome (comparative more grinsome, superlative most grinsome)
- Characterised or marked by grinning.
1872, Charles Stuart Calverley, Fly leaves:Grinder, winsome grinsome Grinder!
1917, Ward Muir, Observations of an Orderly:[...] 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.
1990, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Pinney, The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19: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!
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