grizzle

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: Griz=zle

CIDE DICTIONARY

grizzle, 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.  [1913 Webster]

grizzle, v. t. & i. 

 To make or become grizzly, or grayish.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a
grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

grizzle, v. i. & t. [Etym. uncertain.].

 To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble.  Charles Reade.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

grizzle, v.intr. Brit. colloq.
1 (esp. of a child) cry fretfully.
2 complain whiningly.

Derivative

grizzler n. grizzly adj.

Etymology

19th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

grizzle

Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, besnow, blanch, bleach, buckskin, calico pony, canescent, chalk, chestnut, cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dun, dusty, etiolate, frost, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black, gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzled, grizzly, iron-gray, lead-gray, leaden, livid, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy, paint, painted pony, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, roan, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber, sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, taupe, white, whiten