grizzle
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.
Noun[edit]
grizzle (plural grizzles)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Grey hair, grey wig
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Adjective[edit]
grizzle
- Of a grey colour.
Verb[edit]
grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)
- 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[edit]
To make or become grey, as with age.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From English West Country dialect.[1]
Verb[edit]
grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)
- to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.
- 1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911:
- [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.
- (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.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child
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