1 whine, complain, fret: Wee Betsy'll gurn that she wants tae come too, but there'll be no wee lassies [little girls]. It'll be just the gadgies [boys and men] back on the road. 18-.
2 cry, weep 20-. etymology: Scots; metathesized from English grin; Older Scots girn, gyrn ‘to show the teeth in rage, to snarl’ from 1375; attested by JS, AJW in TN and DW; form gurn attested by ET; sense 2 attested by BS in TDITA