Noun: groin
| Singular | groin |
| Plural | groins |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2022:]
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He pulled a muscle in his groin.
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He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
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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. [1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 5:]
Nouns inflected like groin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
4. Proto-Germanic *grunduz
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yom
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yos
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
8. Proto-Germanic *-jaz
9. Proto-Germanic *-ją
10. Proto-Germanic *grundiją
11. Proto-West Germanic *grundī
12. Old English grynde
13. Middle English grinde
14. English grine
15. English loininflu.
16. English groin
17. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
grinde', Old English Nouns '
grynde'.