grizzlen.2
/ˈɡrɪz(ə)l/ 1. One who grizzles or frets.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > feeble, plaintive, or peevish cry or crying > one who
whiner1603
whindle1647
whimperer1737
puler1832
grizzle1893
mizzler1945
1893 R. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker III. 102 Lady Waveryng, however, was not a woman to fret vainly over the inevitable. Lord Waveryng was far more of a ‘grizzle’.
2. A bout of grumbling or sulking; a peevish mood; a fretful effusion.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint > peevish or querulous
whinge?a1513
whine1633
whinging1720
grizzle1900
bleat1916
bellyache1930
1900 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1908 A. M. N. Lyons Arthur's i. ii. 12 At first I thought she was goin' to do a grizzle, but she turned round quick, with a kind of smile.
1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter xi. §2 Opportunity to write a good long letter to make up for the short grizzle of last month.
1930 H. M. Tomlinson All our Yesterdays i. viii. 85 Out he went without saying good-bye.., which would have given any girl the grizzles.
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grizzleadj.n.1
/ˈɡrɪz(ə)l/ A. adj.
Of grey colour, grey, grizzled. †Formerly also, of a horse: Roan.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective]
greyeOE
grisc1386
grizzlec1425
grison1438
kennet-colour1530
grisy1590
grizzly1594
grisard1607
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [adjective] > roan
grizzlec1425
grizzled1458
roaned1477
roan1558
blue roan1687
rount1688
c1425 Thomas of Erceld. 382 Stedis..baye and broun, grysselle [v.r. gresel] and graye.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. liijv Weryng a cote of orenge tawny, on a horse cooler grysell, trottyng.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miii/2 Grysle coloure, glauculus.
1577–87 R. Holinshed Chron. (1808) IV. 694 The friers minors..whose apparell was grisell garments girded with cords full of knots.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 397 To preserue the haire from being gray and grisle.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 438 The grissel Turtles..Dis-payer'd and parted, wander one by one.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 151 A grissell gelding.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4277/4 She is about 14 Hands and a half high, with a small grizle star in her Forehead.
1748 Whitehall Evening-post 13–15 Sept. Grey Breeches, and a light Grizzle Wig.
1808 J. P. Malcolm Mann. & Cust. London 437 Light grizzle Ties [i.e. wigs] three guineas.
1832 J. Taylor Rec. my Life I. 331 An actor..had dressed himself like a doctor, with a large grizzle wig.
B. n.1† 1. A nickname for a grey-haired old man. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > grey, hoary > person having
hoarOE
hoarhead1382
grizzle1390
greya1413
hasard1513
greyhead1535
oldgrey1582
grizzle-pate1797
iron-grey1822
grisard1880
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 356 That olde grisel is no fole.
c1393 G. Chaucer Scogan 35 But wel I wit þou wilt answere & seye ‘Lo! olde grisel leste to ryme and pleye’.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 401 This olde doted griselle holte him wise.
2. A grey animal; esp. a grey horse.
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > grey animal
grizzlea1620
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > colour or marking > [noun] > grey or dun horse
dunc1405
greya1500
iron-grey?1530
grizzlea1620
yellow-dun1767
grullo1903
a1620 J. Armstrong's Last Goodnt. xx, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 369 But little Musgrave, that was his foot-page, With his bonny grissell got away untain.
a1620 J. Armstrong's Last Goodnt. xxiii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 369 Thou are welcome home, my bonny grisel! Full oft thou hast fed at the corn and hay.
1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 54 Blacks, black-grisles, black-splash'd, yellows, whites, duns.
3.
a. Grey hair; a sprinkling of grey hairs.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > grey, hoary
grizzlea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 163 O thou dissembling Cub: what wilt thou be When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case? View more context for this quotation
1810 Splendid Follies I. 17 A broad frizzed toupée, well powdered to conceal the grizzles that occasionally peeped over her scarified cheek.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. i. 8 These parts [head and neck] were covered with a dirty grizzle of mixed hues.
b. A grey wig.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig > types of > other
Rogerian1597
Gregorian1598
Chedreux1678
vallancy1684
spencer17..
nightcap wig1709
Adonis1734
pigeon wing1753
grizzle1755
tête1756
bag-wig1760
negligent1762
jasey1789
bushel-wig1794
Brutus1798
scalp1802
Brown Georgea1845
sheitel1890
fright wig1904
katsura1908
neck-roll1920
1755 Connoisseur No. 65. ⁋9 His very grizzle is scarce orthodox.
1756 Connoisseur No. 105. ⁋2 Pudding-sleeves, starched bands, and feather-top grizzles.
1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide xi. iv. 77 Emerg'd from his Grizzle, th' unfortunate Sprig Seems as if he was hunting all Night for his Wig.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ii. 29 Sir Arthur's ramilies being the positive, his own bob-wig the comparative, and the overwhelming grizzle of the worthy clergyman figuring as the superlative.
4. Grey colour; the colour grey. †Formerly also: Light roan.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun]
greynessa1398
grey?1548
grizzle1611
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1649) i. xix. 105 Your Henne..must be of a right plume, as gray, grissel, speckt, or yellowish, black or brown is not amisse.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Grissel, a light Rount, or light Flesh-Colour in Horses.
1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 126 The legs are dark brown in front, and paler behind, with a whitish grizzle pervading their whole extent.
5. A second-class stock brick. (So called from its colour; cf. grey stock n. at grey adj. and n. Compounds 1c(a).)
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of
white brick1468
red brick1587
clinker1659
clinkerc1660
stock-brick1683
Windsor brick1702
grey stock1726
stockc1738
red stock1748
firebrick1749
Welsh lump1798
malm1811
cutting-brick1815
pecking1819
blue brick1823
malm brick1824
Windsor1841
cutter1842
grizzle1843
shuff1843
picking1850
Woolpit brick1887
Hollander1897
Staffordshire1898
Stafford brick1908
misfire1923
klompie1926
1843 Mechanics' Mag. 39 192 The grizzles obtained a price midway between the two last named [stocks and places].
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Sept. 11/1 Here you may see a ‘grizzle’ and a ‘malm-brick’.
1879 Notes Building Constr. III. 105 Grizzle and Place bricks are underburnt. They are very weak.
Compounds
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grizzle-headed adj.
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1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 18 Fräulein Schroder..was not beautiful to the eye, and was grizzle-headed.
grizzle-white adj.
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1691 London Gaz. No. 2631/4 Rid away.., a bay Mare about 14 hands,..two grissell white patches on the Rump.
C2.
grizzle-pate n. a grey-headed old man.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > grey, hoary > person having
hoarOE
hoarhead1382
grizzle1390
greya1413
hasard1513
greyhead1535
oldgrey1582
grizzle-pate1797
iron-grey1822
grisard1880
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 171 Sport your glass-blinkers, old grizzle-pate!
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grizzlev.1
/ˈɡrɪz(ə)l/ 1. transitive. To render grey or grey-haired.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [verb (transitive)] > grey
silver1603
grey1609
begraya1624
grizzle1740
the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > make grey > [verb (transitive)]
grey1609
grizzle1740
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 218 He spur'd his sober Steed, grizled with Age, And venerably dull.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner iii. iv. 153 The grey Begins to grizzle the black hair of night.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. xi. 262 The colour with which time had begun to grizzle her tresses.
1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 4 Night Hastens to..grizzle o'er the chilly sky.
2. intransitive. To become grey or grey-haired.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [verb (intransitive)] > grey
hoara1000
grey1615
grizzle1875
1875 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 151 I suppose you are a gray old boy by this time. I am just beginning to grizzle with the first hoar-frost.
1894 Athenæum 24 Nov. 705/1 [A Chinese sonneteer will allude] to the crow's-feet of wisdom around the first sonneteer's own eyes and the poetical grizzling of his own pigtail.
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grizzlev.2
/ˈɡrɪz(ə)l/ local.
1. intransitive. To show the teeth; to grin or laugh, esp. mockingly.
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1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 16 Tamzen and Thee be olweys..stivering or grizzeling, tacking or busking.
1782 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 9) Gloss. To Grizzle, to grin, or smile with a sort of Sneer.
a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 14 The ould man grizzled: No sure, lovy, zed he, I ne'er had the leastest inkling for such a thing.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 26/1 Grizzle, to grin; laugh; show the teeth. ‘What's the g'eat bufflehead grizzling at?’ ‘He grizzled at me; he was as vexed as fire’.
2. To fret, sulk; to cry in a whining or whimpering fashion.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > cry with grief [verb (intransitive)] > cry feebly or plaintively
whingea1150
whinec1275
plaina1425
fipple?1507
whimper1513
mewla1530
pulea1535
whimp1549
whewla1560
simper1613
whindle1709
grizzle1842
squinny1847
wimick1850
mizzlea1935
1842 [see grizzling n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1867 E. Yates Forlorn Hope III. vii. 175 I went abroad, and remained grizzling and feeding on my own heart for months.
1872 M. E. Braddon To Bitter End I. xvi. 264 ‘If the locket's lost, it's lost’, and there's no use in grizzling about it.
1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxxiii He'd sit grizzling and smoking by himself all day long. No getting a word out of him.
Derivatives
ˈgrizzling n. and adj.
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1842 Catnach Ballad in Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. (1899) 2/2 Useless is our grumbling, our grizzling, or mumbling.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. (at cited word) She's such a grizzling woman.
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grizzlev.3
/ˈɡrɪz(ə)l/ local.
transitive and intransitive. To fry, frizzle, over-cook.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > overcook
overdo1683
overcook1850
grizzle1900
1900 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1913 H. Walpole Fortitude i. viii. 98 Poor old man..nobody loves him..to hell with the lot of 'em..let 'em grizzle in hell fire.
1941 J. Cary House of Children 202 Four or five men surrounded the table,..eating and calling out to the girl not to grizzle the bacon.
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