Meaning of GRIZZLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'grizul
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- [n] a grey wig
- [v] complain whiningly
- [v] be in a huff; be silent or sullen
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| | Synonyms: | | brood, stew, sulk, whine, yammer, yawp |
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| | See Also: | | be, complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, wig | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Griz"zle\, n. [F. gris: cf. grisaille hair partly gray,
fr. gris gray. See {Gris}, and cf. {Grisaille}.]
Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. --Shak.
\Griz"zle\, v. t. & i.
To make or become grizzly, or grayish.
Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little
children. --R. F.
Burton.
I found grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins
Bey. --Pall Mall
Mag.
\Griz"zle\, v. i. & t. [Etym. uncertain.]
To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [Prov. Eng.] `` Don't
sit grizzling there.'' --Charles Reade.
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| | Related Terms: | | acier, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, besnow, blanch, bleach, buckskin, calico pony, canescent, chalk, chestnut, cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dappled, dappled-gray, dapple-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dun, dusty, etiolate, frost, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, grayed, gray-green, grayish, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, griseous, grizzled, grizzly, iron-gray, leaden, lead-gray, livid, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, paint, painted pony, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, Quaker-colored, roan, sad, silver, silvered, silver-gray, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, taupe, white, whiten |
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