gern
verb/ɡɜː(ɹ)n/
Etymology See grin.
1
Obsolete To grin.
2
Obsolete To yawn.
- [He] gaped like a gulfe, when he did gerne, / That whether man or monster one could scarse discerne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13: