different between grizzle vs bristle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *gr?s, from Proto-Germanic *gr?saz.

Noun

grizzle (plural grizzles)

1. A dark grey colour.

2. Grey hair.
3. A grey wig.

Translations

Related terms

• grizzly

Adjective

grizzle

1. Of a grey colour.

Verb

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

1. 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.

Translations

Etymology 2

From English West Country dialect.

Verb

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

1. to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child.
2. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To whinge or whine.
   • 1888, William S. Gilbert (librettist), The Yeomen of the Guard, The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, page 510,

     [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?

   • 2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page,

     The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.

3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To fuss or cry

Translations

Related terms

• grizzler

See also

• Appendix:Colors

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, diminutive of brust, from Old English byrst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r?stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fast?gium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)), equivalent to brust +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??s.l?/
• (dated, rural folk speech of New England and Upstate New York) IPA^(key): /?b??s.l?/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

bristle (plural bristles)

1. A stiff or coarse hair.

   the bristles of a pig

2. The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

Derived terms

• bristlet

Translations

Verb

bristle (third-person singular simple present bristles, present participle bristling, simple past and past participle bristled)

1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
2. abound, to have an abundance of something
3. (with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
4. To fix a bristle to.

   to bristle a thread

Derived terms

• bristling

Translations

References

• bristle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bitlers, Liberts, blister, reblits, riblets