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groin
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????n/
- Rhymes: -??n
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
- (euphemistic) The genitals.
- He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
- (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
Coordinate terms
- inguinal
Translations
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) To hollow out, to excavate.
- 'Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.' (From Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen).
Etymology 2
From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunni?) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunn?n?).
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, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
Etymology 3
Noun
groin (plural groins)
- Alternative spelling of groyne
Anagrams
- Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron
French
Etymology
From Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??w??/
Noun
groin m (plural groins)
- the snout of the pig
Further reading
- “groin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- giron
Middle English
Noun
groin
- Alternative form of groyn
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pubic
English
Etymology
From pubis +? -ic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pju?b?k/
- Rhymes: -u?b?k
Adjective
pubic (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to the area of the body adjacent to the pubis or the pubes.
Related terms
- pubic bone
- pubic hair
- pubic symphysis
Translations
Further reading
- pubic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pubic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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