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grinning

/ˈɡɹɪnɪŋ/ noun B2
  1. The act or expression of one who grins. (countable, uncountable)

Plural grinnings

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When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 2 · B2
The leader of the Winged Monkeys flew up to her, his long, hairy arms stretched out and his ugly face grinning terribly; but he saw the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss upon her forehead and stopped short, motioning the others not to touch her.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 84 · B2
The grinning guns along the wall,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 24 · C1
“So this is what Matthew has been looking so mysterious over and grinning about to himself for two weeks, is it?” she said a little stiffly but tolerantly.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 194 · C1

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