girnie

girnie

(ˈɡɜːnɪ)
adj
peevish
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This fits with the references to Germanic myth as well, for the afterlife of Girnie is not nearly as exciting as the heroic battles and the eschatological chaos which precede it.
"Fictions where a man could live": worldlessness, utopia, and the void in Rushdie's Grimus
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