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grinning and bearing it

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English

Syllables
grin-ning and bear-ing it
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of grin and bear it

Questions

What does grinning and bearing it mean?
present participle and gerund of grin and bear it

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