grizzle

plural grizzles

1. A dark grey colour.
2. Grey hair.
3. A grey wig.

1. Of a grey colour.

present singular third person grizzles · participle present grizzling · participle past grizzled · past grizzled

1. To make or become grey, as with age.

   R. F. Burton hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children

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   Pall Mall Magazine I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.

present singular third person grizzles · participle present grizzling · participle past grizzled · past grizzled

1. To cry continuously but not very loudly (said especially of young children).
2. AustraliaNew ZealandUKslangTo whinge or whine.

   R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?

   1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4850

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   [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?

   1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911

   The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.

   2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page

3. AustraliaNew ZealandUKslangTo fuss or cry.

   New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.

   1990, The Baby Book, →ISBN, page 88

plural Grizzles

1. A surname.