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Grizzle vs Smoulder - What's the difference?

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Grizzle is a related term of smoulder.


As nouns the difference between grizzle and smoulder

is that grizzle is a dark grey colour while smoulder is (obsolete) smoke; smother.

As verbs the difference between grizzle and smoulder

is that grizzle is to make or become grey or grizzle can be (uk|slang) to whinge or whine while smoulder is .

As an adjective grizzle

is of a grey colour.

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

    smoulder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
  • *:I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing in the absence of man and in a temperate climate, flames must be. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn even when focussed by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames. Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
    • (Holinshed)
    (Palsgrave)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) smoke; smother
  • * Gascoigne
    • The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

    Anagrams

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