grizzle
See also: Grizzle
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French grisel, from gris
Noun
grizzle (plural grizzles)
Translations
Grey hair, grey wig
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Adjective
grizzle
- Of a grey colour.
Verb
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- To make or become grey, as with age.
- R. F. Burton
- hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children
- Pall Mall Magazine
- I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.
- R. F. Burton
Translations
To make or become grey, as with age.
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Etymology 2
From English West Country dialect.[1]
Verb
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- to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.
- 1888, William S. Gilbert (librettist), The Yeomen of the Guard, The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, page 510,
- [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?
- 1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates[1], page 4850:
- R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?
- 2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page,
- The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.
- 1888, William S. Gilbert (librettist), The Yeomen of the Guard, The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, page 510,
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fuss or cry
- 1990, The Baby Book, →ISBN, page 88:
- New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.
Translations
to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child
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