groin
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Etymology 1
From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
Noun
groin (plural groins)
- The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
- The area adjoining this fold or depression.
- He pulled a muscle in his groin.
- (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
- (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
- (euphemistic) The genitals.
- He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
- 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:
- My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.
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Translations
long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs
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anatomical feature
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Verb
groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
- To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
- In the scrum he somehow got groined.
- She groined him and ran to the car.
- (architecture) To build with groins.
- (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
- 1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:
- Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
Etymology 2
From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).
Verb
groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)
- To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:
- Beares, that groynd continually
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
Etymology 3
Noun
groin (plural groins)
- Alternative spelling of groyne
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Etymology
Inherited from Old French groing, gruing, from Late Latin grunium.
Pronunciation
Noun
groin m (plural groins)
Further reading
- “groin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Noun
groin
- Alternative form of groyn
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