grinning

About 2.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of grin

   I’m grinning because someone told me a joke.

2. noun The act or expression of one who grins.

Similar words

smiling smile smirking leering simpering laughing beaming tittering gloating cheesing

Often followed by

at and like from broadly as with in face

Word family

grin grinned grinner grinners grinningly grins