girn

• And he gave a girn, that stretched his mouth from ear to ear This was too much for the subterranean daughter of Eve; it was like putting a red-hot poker among the coals of her own pit. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• "Yet I thought he belonged to the gude old-fashioned sort I told un he was out in his reckoning, that he'd be left in the cold bimebye, so sure as Blanchard was Blanchard and Newtake was Newtake; but he awnly girned his gert, ear-wide girn, an' said he knawed better To think of more gude money bein' buried up theer! —  Children of the Mist
• My puir bairn, worshipping the very ground her man sets foot on, and never getting aught but a gibe or a girn from him, and, for the very wilfulness of her sair heart, ever putting herself farther from him Such was the piteous account that Madame de Ste. Petronelle (otherwise Dame Elspeth Johnstone) gave, and which the Lady of Glenuskie soon perceived to be only too true during the days spent at Nanci. —  Two Penniless Princesses
• "Him and me were never onyways pack; we used to girn at ither like a pair of pipers. —  Catriona
• The bergs like kelpies overside that girn an 'turn an' shift —  Verses 1889-1896

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms