groin
To deliver a blow to the genitals ofTo deliver a blow to the genitals of.
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» Mary kicked Tom in the groin.
Mary trat Tom in den Schritt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Mary hat Tom in den Schritt getreten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Мэри пнула Тома в пах. — sharptoothed
Spamster · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 sensesTo deliver a blow to the genitals of.
In the scrum he somehow got groined.
She groined him and ran to the car.
To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
build with groins
(literary, transitive)To hollow out; to excavate.
To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
Examples
10 sentencesMary kicked Tom in the groin.
ruМэри пнула Тома в пах. — sharptoothed
deMary trat Tom in den Schritt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom pulled his groin playing soccer.
Tom sustained a kick to the groin.
Getting kicked in the groin is painful.
deEin Tritt in den Schritt tut weh. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR
I have an itch in my groin area.
Origin
From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from LatFrom Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).
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Forms
groins, groining, groined, groinedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.