groin

Meanings

Noun

• The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
• The area adjoining this fold or depression.
• The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
• The genitals.
• The surface formed by two such vaults.
• Alternate spelling of groyne

Verb

• To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
• To build with groins.
• (literary) To hollow out, to excavate.
• To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

Origin

• From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde ("abyss") (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
• From Middle English groynen, from a mixture of Old French groignier, grougnier (from Latin grunniō) and Old English grunnian (from Proto-Germanic *grunnōną).