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発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/
• (Ireland) IPA: /ˈɡɹɑɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɒɪ̯n/
• 韻: -ɔɪn
• ハイフネーション: groin
• Homophone: groyne

語源 1

From earlier grine, from 中期英語 grinde, grynde, from 古期英語 grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

名詞

groin (plural groins)

1. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
   • 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎:

     The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.

2. The area adjoining this fold or depression.

   He pulled a muscle in his groin.

3. (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
4. (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
5. (euphemistic) The genitals.

   He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.

   • 1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:

     My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.

等位語

• inguinal

派生語

動詞

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.

   In the scrum he somehow got groined.

   She groined him and ran to the car.

2. (architecture) To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50:

     The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated against a dark sky, and appearing like a fairy palace supported on a hundred columns, and groined over with leafy arches.

3. (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
   • 1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:

     Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

語源 2

From 中期英語 groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and 古期英語 grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).

動詞

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:

     Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
     Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:

     Beares, that groynd continually

語源 3

名詞

groin (plural groins)

1. US standard spelling of groyne.

アナグラム

• Gorin, O-ring, Ringo, giron