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gannire [CL] 1 (of animal) to yelp, yap; b (fig.). Aldh. PR 131 (v. baubare); Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 256 (v. gannitio); to cry ‥, vulpium [est] ~ire CathA.  b mulierculis leto plausu ~ientibus W. Malm. GR III 229. 2 to mock, deride. ~iret, cum ira quasi [in]ride[re]t GlC G 2; Satan per viscera gannit: / quem coluit petulans, hujus fit hospita bachans Frith. 908; verba increpatoria subsecuta est alapa, quam ille, zelo castitatis, faciei muliercule ~ientis tanto nisu infregit W. Malm. Wulfst. I 6; quasi ~ientibus rictibus insultabat R. Cold. Cuthb. 65; ~ire ‥ dicitur deridere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 263; dum infelix ~iret Judas semicoctus gallus effectus est vivus Judas Story 70. 3 (conf. w. garrire) to chatter foolishly. tace, obmutesce, digito compesce labellum, ne ‥ de contra ~ire presumas (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 74.

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