grizzle

See also: Grizzle

English

grizzle (plural grizzles)

Grey hair, grey wig

grizzle

grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)

To make or become grey, as with age.
- R. F. Burton
  hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children
- Pall Mall Magazine
  I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.

To make or become grey, as with age.

From English West Country dialect.^[1]

grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)

to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.
- 1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911:
  [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?
- 1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates‎^[1], page 4850:
  R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?
- 2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page:
  The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fuss or cry
- 1990, The Baby Book, →ISBN, page 88:
  New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.

to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child

^ 2010, Alex Games, Balderdash & Piffle: English Words and Their Curious Origins, page 135.