Grizzle

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grizzle \Griz"zle\, v. i. & t. [Etym. uncertain.]
     To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [Prov. Eng.] "Don't
     sit grizzling there." --Charles Reade.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Grizzle \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.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grizzle \Griz"zle\, v. t. & i.
     To make or become grizzly, or grayish.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
           Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little
           children.                                --R. F.
                                                    Burton.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
           I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with
           a
           grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey. --Pall
                                                    Mall Mag.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grizzle
       n : a grey wig
       v 1: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: {brood}, {stew}]
       2: complain whiningly [syn: {whine}, {yammer}, {yawp}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "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