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[ noun ] a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
Used in print (Howard Fast, April Morning....)It was my initiation to war and the insane symphony war plays ; for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; but this grinning , broken head , not ten feet away from me , was the sharp definition of what my reality had become . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)He was seeing , somehow , the face of a young boy , the boy Simms_Purdew must once have been , a boy with sorrel hair , and blue eyes dancing with gaiety , and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles . Related terms |
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