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grizzle

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

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quiver

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw?v?/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: kw??v?r, IPA(key): /?kw?v??/
  • Rhymes: -?v?(?)
  • Hyphenation: qui?ver

Etymology 1

From Middle English quiver, from Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare (source of Dutch koker, and cognate to Old English cocer (quiver, case)), from Proto-West Germanic *kukur (container), said to be from Hunnic, possibly from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür (leather vessel for liquids); see there for more. Replaced early modern English cocker, the inherited reflex of that West Germanic word.

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

  1. (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene I, line 271:
      Don Pedro: Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 39:
      Arrows were carried in quiver, called also an arrow case, which served for the magazine, arrows for immediate use were worn in the girdle.
  2. (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
    He's got lots of sales pitches in his quiver.
  3. (obsolete) The collective noun for cobras.
  4. (mathematics) A multidigraph.

Derived terms

  • quiverful

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quiver, cwiver, from Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (alive).

Adjective

quiver (comparative more quiver, superlative most quiver)

  1. (archaic) Nimble, active.
    • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Part II, Act III, Scene II, line 281:
      [...] there was a little quiver fellow, and 'a would manage you his piece thus; and 'a would about and about, and come you in and come you in.

Etymology 3

From Middle English quiveren, probably from the adjective.

Verb

quiver (third-person singular simple present quivers, present participle quivering, simple past and past participle quivered)

  1. (intransitive) To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion
    Synonyms: tremble, quake, shudder, shiver
    • And left the limbs still quivering on the ground.

Derived terms

  • aquiver
  • quivering
  • quiversome

Translations

References

Further reading

  • quiver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman quivre, from Old Dutch cocare; perhaps ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *kökexür or Hunnic. Doublet of coker.

Alternative forms

  • quyver, qwyver, qwywere, qwyvere, whyver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/

Noun

quiver (plural quivers)

  1. A quiver (a receptacle for arrows)
  2. (rare, vulgar) A vulva.
Descendants
  • English: quiver
References
  • “quiver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

Etymology 2

From Old English *cwifer, probably related to cwic (alive).

Alternative forms

  • quyver, quyvere, cwiver

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kwiv?r/

Adjective

quiver

  1. fast, speedy, rapid
  2. energetic, vigourous, vibrant
Descendants
  • English: quiver
References
  • “quiver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.

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