adj
Meaning 1
Of a grey colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
grizzle
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɡɹɪzəl/
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US: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
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name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
A dark grey colour.
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noun
Meaning 4
Grey hair.
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noun
Meaning 5
A grey wig.
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verb
Meaning 6
To make or become grey, as with age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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verb
Meaning 7
To cry continuously but not very loudly (said especially of young children).
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verb
Meaning 8
To whinge or whine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang
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verb
Meaning 9
To fuss or cry.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, slang
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noun
Meaning 10
a grey wig
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wig
verb
Meaning 11
complain whiningly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp
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Broader terms: complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
verb
Meaning 12
be in a huff; be silent or sullen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: brood, stew
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Broader terms: sulk, pout, brood
History
Etymology
From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.
A West Country dialect term, perhaps from Old English grisan (“shudder”), which would make it a cognate of modern English grisly (not grizzly).
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شَيْب (šayb) — Grey hair, grey wig
- Bulgarian: сива коса (siva kosa) — Grey hair, grey wig
- Bulgarian: сива перука (siva peruka) — Grey hair, grey wig
- Bulgarian: посивявам (posivjavam) — To make or become grey, as with age.
- Dutch: vergrijzen — To make or become grey, as with age.
- Bulgarian: хленча (hlenča) — to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child
- Finnish: kitistä — to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child
- Māori: whakakurepe — to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child
- Māori: tangimeme — to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child