Grizzle vs Bristle - What's the difference?
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Of a grey colour.
To make or become grey.
(UK, slang) To whinge or whine.
* 1888 , , ''The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan ,
* 1976 , , Parliamentary Debates ,
* 2009 , , Game Girls ,
A stiff or coarse hair.
The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
* Sir Walter Scott
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
* Shakespeare
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Grizzle is a related term of bristle.
As a noun grizzle
is a dark grey colour.As an adjective grizzle
is of a grey colour.As a verb grizzle
is to make or become grey or grizzle can be (uk|slang) to whinge or whine.As a proper noun bristle is
(slang|humorous) bristol, england (in imitation of the local dialect).grizzle
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) grisel, from grisAdjective
Verb
(grizzl)Etymology 2
From English West Country dialect.2010 , Alex Games, Balderdash & Piffle: English Words and Their Curious Origins ,page 135.
Verb
(grizzl)page 510,
- [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?
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- R. J. Tizard' — What are you ' grizzling about now?
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- The pin-thin girl is grizzling , whining that she has sand in her eyes.
See also
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bristle
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Verb
(bristl)- His hair did bristle upon his head.
- the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
- ports bristling with thousands of masts
- Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- to bristle a thread