grey-headedgray-headedadj.

Brit.

/ˌɡreɪˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈɡreɪˌhɛdəd/

Forms: see grey adj. and n. and headed adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., headed adj.

Etymology: < grey adj. + headed adj. Compare greyhead n., and grey-bearded adj., grey-haired adj.

a. Having grey hair, grey-haired; elderly, old.In quot. 1813: old after long continuation in; (hence) well versed, experienced.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > grey, hoary > having

hoarc1290

grey?c1335

grey-haireda1425

hasard1513

grey-headed1535

hoar-headed1561

hoary1580

grizzleda1616

silver-headed1643

silver-haired1665

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxx. 18 In myne olde age, when I am gray headed.

1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes ii. f. 41^v Howe chaunceth it, that although Infantes be naturally moyst, are not for all that graye hedded?

1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 83 The grey-headed..Citizens of London.

1739 J. Wesley Let. 6 Dec. (1931) I. 340 We expect scholars of all ages, some of them grey-headed.

1775 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 471/1 In this voyage died 17 of the sailors, and all the four French pilgrims, two of them being grey-headed and 60 years of age.

1813 Ld. Ellenborough in Examiner 29 Mar. 199/1 A man grey-headed in the law.

1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus in Lays Anc. Rome 101 With boys, and with grey-headed men, To keep the walls of Rome.

1891 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 690/2 A gray-headed old gondolier, who in his haste had muffed his oar awkwardly, at which the others laughed.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxv. 314 Mere boys and old gray-headed rips sneaking in there evenings and drinking licker.

1970 K. Giles Death in Church iv. 85 A grey-headed woman was crying in a corner.

2004 S. K. Adams My Old True Love (2005) v. 57 She'd turned fifty a few months back and was more grayheaded now than blond.

b. Relating to or characteristic of advanced years or long experience. Cf. grey-bearded adj. 2, grey-haired adj. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of

oldOE

aged1561

grey-headed1581

frosty1592

grey1602

veneral1631

senile1661

venerable1726

gerontic1885

post-reproductive1900

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. f. 43 Excessiue malice & violent outrage: with neither of y^t which your person and grayheaded yeares ought in any wise bee acquainted.

1652 Bp. S. Patrick Funeral Serm. in J. Smith Sel. Disc. 526 By reason of his wisdom, experience, and gray-headed understanding.

1704 Town Spy i. 7 No, Scattergood, trust Gray-Headed Experience.

1753 Adventurer No. 25. ⁋3 Love is beneath the dignity of grey-headed wisdom.

1829 S. Gibbon Recoll. 53 In his grey-headed years, he took it into his head to marry a tall young woman.

1847 R. D. Boylan tr. F. Schiller Don Carlos v. iv, in Wks. III. 181 But let him blush With deep-felt shame,..That his greyheaded wisdom was o'erreached E'en by the judgment of a youth!

1892 Chron. London Missionary Soc. Aug. 197/1 A venerable old lady with grey-headed experience.

1979 Daily Herald (Chicago) 2 Dec. ii. 3/6 His circle of assistants has been broadened..so that gray-headed wisdom can supplement the counsel of the young Georgia insiders.

2008 N. Clark Love in Prison of Psychosis 107 We will watch with grey-headed disgust as a whole phalanx of new ideas and media appal us in our geriatric slump.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Ancient, old; of long standing; time-worn; decrepit. Cf. grey-haired adj. 2. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective]

oldeOE

eldeda1400

antique1490

invetered1490

prisk1533

grey-headed1578

ancient1579

hoar1590

inveterated1597

antiquated1598

inveterate1598

long-dated1602

avital1611

vetust1623

old-standinga1627

grey-haired1637

superannuateda1644

avitous1731

old-established1776

venerable1792

timeworn1840

inworn1864

avitic1865

1578 W. Hopkinson in tr. T. de Bèze Euident Display Popish Pract. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶.ij God..hath directed and brought downe his beloued people vnto this gray headed estate, of these miserable dayes wherein we be.

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill sig. Aij To begin (after the common stampe of dedication) with a grai-headed Apophthegme.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 104 Which conceit is not the daughter of latter times, but an old and gray-headed errour, even in the dayes of Aristotle.

1690 J. Norris Cursory Refl. Ess. Human Understanding 21 in Christian Blessedness That grey-headed venerable Doctrin.

1721 J. Perry Glory Christ's Visible Kingdom xxii. 465 The World is now grown old, grey-headed.

1755 J. Hervey Theron & Aspasio III. ix. 155 We have clearly demonstrated..the very Reverse of that grey-headed Surmise to be true.

1868 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Nov. 446/2 What an honorable thing is a gray-headed idea!

1879 B. F. Taylor Summer-savory viii. 75 Almost every old house among the mountains is haunted by gray-headed stories.

1937 Boys' Life Feb. 32/1 It was toothless and gray headed when—the ceremony, I mean, not the sweethearts—St. Valentine was born.

3. Of a geographical feature: having a grey top or peak.

ΚΠ

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. vi. §5 Those snowy and gray headed Alps.

1776 Crit. Rev. June 423 Fingal, the king of heroes, had twelve towers in the winding valley of the grey-headed stones.

1840 Ladies' Compan. Nov. 34/2 No sound of the ‘church going bell’ was heard..dying away in melodious echoes amid the ravines of the grey headed mountains.

1885 H. R. Francis in H. C. Pennell et al. Fishing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 259 The purple-robed, grey-headed hills seem closing in upon me.

1911 A. Blackwood Centaur (1912) xlii. 305 Grey-headed rocks rose everywhere close about the ship.

2001 U. K. Le Guin Other Wind ii. 80 He liked the view from Havnor across the hills to the tall, grey-headed mountain Onn.

4. In the names of animals (esp. birds) having a grey or greyish head.See also grey-headed duck n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head > of particular colour

red-headed1556

white-crowned1605

red-capped1648

redhead1738

blue-headed1743

grey-headed1747

black-capped1751

ruby-crowned1758

ruby-headed1811

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [adjective] > of particular colour

grey-headed1747

1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. Index 127 Picus, viridis, capite cinereo. Grey-headed Green Wood-pecker.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Greyheaded-wagtail, the bird Budytes neglecta, and Motacilla flava of Linnæus.

1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. 265 The Grey-headed Mollymawk.

1946 National Geographic Mag. July 54 (caption) Gray-headed Juncos leave their high-altitude homes only when snows make food scarce.

1984 J. E. Hill Bats xi. 187 Some pteropodids, such as the Grey-headed flying fox..migrate seasonally to follow the ripening of fruit in different regions.

2005 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 21/5 Seated immediately beside me every evening was a grey-headed albatross, tall and stately.

5. Of a sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus (esp. an older male): having greyish markings on the head. Cf. greyhead n. 2b. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [adjective] > of the male sperm whale

grey-headed1839

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale i. 31 Old ‘bulls’..have generally a portion of grey on the nose immediately above the fore-part of the upper-jaw, and they are then said to be ‘grey-headed’.

1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. viii. 75 Sperm Whale... The oldest males are frequently well-marked with gray about the nose,..and when this is indicated, they are called ‘gray-headed’.

1900 F. E. Beddard Bk. Whales viii. 203 Ships have been sunk by the deliberate assaults of vicious, grey-headed, old Cachalots.

2000 T. Severin In Search Moby Dick ii. 54 Reynolds's Mocha Dick..could have been what the older whalemen called ‘grey headed’.

Compounds

grey-headed duck n. now rare any of several types of ducks having a grey head; esp. the king eider, Somateria spectabilis, and the female of the goldeneye, Bucephala clangula.

ΚΠ

1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 154 The Grey-Headed Duck. This Bird is of a large Size for the Duck-kind.

1793 Nat. Hist. Birds, Fish, Insects & Reptiles III. 183 The Spectabilis, which is the grey-headed duck of Edwards, and the king-duck of Pennant, is a very beautiful species.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 160 Golden-eye (Clangula glaucion)..Grey-headed duck. Only applied to the female bird.

1900 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 1899 216 Golden-Eye, Clángula glaúcion (Linnæus). L[ocal] N[ames]. Brown-headed Duck, Grey-headed Duck, Pied Wigeon, Golden-eyed Wigeon, Duck or Teal, Morillon, Rattlewings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	grey-headed
释义	grey-headedgray-headedadj. Brit. /ˌɡreɪˈhɛdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪˌhɛdəd/ Forms: see grey adj. and n. and headed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grey adj., headed adj. Etymology: < grey adj. + headed adj. Compare greyhead n., and grey-bearded adj., grey-haired adj. 1. a. Having grey hair, grey-haired; elderly, old.In quot. 1813: old after long continuation in; (hence) well versed, experienced. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > grey, hoary > having hoarc1290 grey?c1335 grey-haireda1425 hasard1513 grey-headed1535 hoar-headed1561 hoary1580 grizzleda1616 silver-headed1643 silver-haired1665 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxx. 18 In myne olde age, when I am gray headed. 1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes ii. f. 41^v Howe chaunceth it, that although Infantes be naturally moyst, are not for all that graye hedded? 1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 83 The grey-headed..Citizens of London. 1739 J. Wesley Let. 6 Dec. (1931) I. 340 We expect scholars of all ages, some of them grey-headed. 1775 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 471/1 In this voyage died 17 of the sailors, and all the four French pilgrims, two of them being grey-headed and 60 years of age. 1813 Ld. Ellenborough in Examiner 29 Mar. 199/1 A man grey-headed in the law. 1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus in Lays Anc. Rome 101 With boys, and with grey-headed men, To keep the walls of Rome. 1891 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 690/2 A gray-headed old gondolier, who in his haste had muffed his oar awkwardly, at which the others laughed. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxv. 314 Mere boys and old gray-headed rips sneaking in there evenings and drinking licker. 1970 K. Giles Death in Church iv. 85 A grey-headed woman was crying in a corner. 2004 S. K. Adams My Old True Love (2005) v. 57 She'd turned fifty a few months back and was more grayheaded now than blond. b. Relating to or characteristic of advanced years or long experience. Cf. grey-bearded adj. 2, grey-haired adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of oldOE aged1561 grey-headed1581 frosty1592 grey1602 veneral1631 senile1661 venerable1726 gerontic1885 post-reproductive1900 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. f. 43 Excessiue malice & violent outrage: with neither of y^t which your person and grayheaded yeares ought in any wise bee acquainted. 1652 Bp. S. Patrick Funeral Serm. in J. Smith Sel. Disc. 526 By reason of his wisdom, experience, and gray-headed understanding. 1704 Town Spy i. 7 No, Scattergood, trust Gray-Headed Experience. 1753 Adventurer No. 25. ⁋3 Love is beneath the dignity of grey-headed wisdom. 1829 S. Gibbon Recoll. 53 In his grey-headed years, he took it into his head to marry a tall young woman. 1847 R. D. Boylan tr. F. Schiller Don Carlos v. iv, in Wks. III. 181 But let him blush With deep-felt shame,..That his greyheaded wisdom was o'erreached E'en by the judgment of a youth! 1892 Chron. London Missionary Soc. Aug. 197/1 A venerable old lady with grey-headed experience. 1979 Daily Herald (Chicago) 2 Dec. ii. 3/6 His circle of assistants has been broadened..so that gray-headed wisdom can supplement the counsel of the young Georgia insiders. 2008 N. Clark Love in Prison of Psychosis 107 We will watch with grey-headed disgust as a whole phalanx of new ideas and media appal us in our geriatric slump. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Ancient, old; of long standing; time-worn; decrepit. Cf. grey-haired adj. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] oldeOE eldeda1400 antique1490 invetered1490 prisk1533 grey-headed1578 ancient1579 hoar1590 inveterated1597 antiquated1598 inveterate1598 long-dated1602 avital1611 vetust1623 old-standinga1627 grey-haired1637 superannuateda1644 avitous1731 old-established1776 venerable1792 timeworn1840 inworn1864 avitic1865 1578 W. Hopkinson in tr. T. de Bèze Euident Display Popish Pract. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶.ij God..hath directed and brought downe his beloued people vnto this gray headed estate, of these miserable dayes wherein we be. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill sig. Aij To begin (after the common stampe of dedication) with a grai-headed Apophthegme. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. i. 104 Which conceit is not the daughter of latter times, but an old and gray-headed errour, even in the dayes of Aristotle. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Norris Cursory Refl. Ess. Human Understanding 21 in Christian Blessedness That grey-headed venerable Doctrin. 1721 J. Perry Glory Christ's Visible Kingdom xxii. 465 The World is now grown old, grey-headed. 1755 J. Hervey Theron & Aspasio III. ix. 155 We have clearly demonstrated..the very Reverse of that grey-headed Surmise to be true. 1868 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Nov. 446/2 What an honorable thing is a gray-headed idea! 1879 B. F. Taylor Summer-savory viii. 75 Almost every old house among the mountains is haunted by gray-headed stories. 1937 Boys' Life Feb. 32/1 It was toothless and gray headed when—the ceremony, I mean, not the sweethearts—St. Valentine was born. 3. Of a geographical feature: having a grey top or peak. ΚΠ 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. vi. §5 Those snowy and gray headed Alps. 1776 Crit. Rev. June 423 Fingal, the king of heroes, had twelve towers in the winding valley of the grey-headed stones. 1840 Ladies' Compan. Nov. 34/2 No sound of the ‘church going bell’ was heard..dying away in melodious echoes amid the ravines of the grey headed mountains. 1885 H. R. Francis in H. C. Pennell et al. Fishing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 259 The purple-robed, grey-headed hills seem closing in upon me. 1911 A. Blackwood Centaur (1912) xlii. 305 Grey-headed rocks rose everywhere close about the ship. 2001 U. K. Le Guin Other Wind ii. 80 He liked the view from Havnor across the hills to the tall, grey-headed mountain Onn. 4. In the names of animals (esp. birds) having a grey or greyish head.See also grey-headed duck n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head > of particular colour red-headed1556 white-crowned1605 red-capped1648 redhead1738 blue-headed1743 grey-headed1747 black-capped1751 ruby-crowned1758 ruby-headed1811 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [adjective] > of particular colour grey-headed1747 1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. Index 127 Picus, viridis, capite cinereo. Grey-headed Green Wood-pecker. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Greyheaded-wagtail, the bird Budytes neglecta, and Motacilla flava of Linnæus. 1904 F. W. Hutton & J. Drummond Animals N.Z. 265 The Grey-headed Mollymawk. 1946 National Geographic Mag. July 54 (caption) Gray-headed Juncos leave their high-altitude homes only when snows make food scarce. 1984 J. E. Hill Bats xi. 187 Some pteropodids, such as the Grey-headed flying fox..migrate seasonally to follow the ripening of fruit in different regions. 2005 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 21/5 Seated immediately beside me every evening was a grey-headed albatross, tall and stately. 5. Of a sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus (esp. an older male): having greyish markings on the head. Cf. greyhead n. 2b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [adjective] > of the male sperm whale grey-headed1839 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale i. 31 Old ‘bulls’..have generally a portion of grey on the nose immediately above the fore-part of the upper-jaw, and they are then said to be ‘grey-headed’. 1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. viii. 75 Sperm Whale... The oldest males are frequently well-marked with gray about the nose,..and when this is indicated, they are called ‘gray-headed’. 1900 F. E. Beddard Bk. Whales viii. 203 Ships have been sunk by the deliberate assaults of vicious, grey-headed, old Cachalots. 2000 T. Severin In Search Moby Dick ii. 54 Reynolds's Mocha Dick..could have been what the older whalemen called ‘grey headed’. Compounds grey-headed duck n. now rare any of several types of ducks having a grey head; esp. the king eider, Somateria spectabilis, and the female of the goldeneye, Bucephala clangula. ΚΠ 1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 154 The Grey-Headed Duck. This Bird is of a large Size for the Duck-kind. 1793 Nat. Hist. Birds, Fish, Insects & Reptiles III. 183 The Spectabilis, which is the grey-headed duck of Edwards, and the king-duck of Pennant, is a very beautiful species. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 160 Golden-eye (Clangula glaucion)..Grey-headed duck. Only applied to the female bird. 1900 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 1899 216 Golden-Eye, Clángula glaúcion (Linnæus). L[ocal] N[ames]. Brown-headed Duck, Grey-headed Duck, Pied Wigeon, Golden-eyed Wigeon, Duck or Teal, Morillon, Rattlewings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1535
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