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grizzle | grey |

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 grey is

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grizzle

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) grisel, from gris

Noun

(en noun)
  • A dark grey colour.
  • Grey hair.
  • A grey wig.
    • Related terms
    * grizzly

    Adjective

  • Of a grey colour.

    • Verb

    (grizzl)
  • To make or become grey.

    • Etymology 2

    From English West Country dialect.2010 , Alex Games, Balderdash & Piffle: English Words and Their Curious Origins , page 135.

    Verb

    (grizzl)
  • (UK, slang) To whinge or whine.
  • * 1888 , , ''The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan , page 510,
    • [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?
  • * 1976 , , Parliamentary Debates , page 4850,
    • R. J. Tizard' — What are you ' grizzling about now?
  • * 2009 , , Game Girls , unnumbered page,
    • The pin-thin girl is grizzling , whining that she has sand in her eyes.
    Related terms
    * grizzler

    See also

    *

    References

    grey

    English

    Adjective

    (greyer)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey , the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey -suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
    Usage notes
    A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the (British) '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also frequently found in American English.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, battleship grey , grey area , greybeard , grey eminence , grey-haired , greyhound , greyness , grey ghost , grey matter}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • My hair is beginning to grey.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • See also

    *

    Anagrams

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