groinnoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/

• 1

  The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

  • 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

  architectureThe projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults

• 4

  geometrymathematicssciencesThe surface formed by two such vaults.

• 5

  The genitals.

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

groinverb詞源 1/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/

• 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

  architectureTo build or furnish with a groin or groins.

  • 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

  literaryTo hollow out; to excavate.

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

groinverb詞源 2/ˈɡɹoɪ̯n/ ~ /ˈɡɹɔɪ̯n/

• 1

  To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

  • Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,
  • Beares, that groynd continually

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• groyne