gurn
v.— «Not that snogging was ever the agenda, as most people were gurning and too busy worshipping the stupid music.» —“Howard Ritchie’s Future Big Ones” by Howard Ritchie ic Coventry (U.K.) May 25, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
An anadrome is a word that forms a whole new word when you spell it backwards. For example, the word “stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts.” Some people’s first names are anadromes. There’s the girl named Noel...
A flashlight doesn’t flash. It provides a steady beam of light. So why is it called a flashlight? The earliest versions lit up only briefly before the batteries gave out and required a recharge, so they were literally “flash lights...