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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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smoulder

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sm??ld?(?)/

Verb

smoulder (third-person singular simple present smoulders, present participle smouldering, simple past and past participle smouldered)

  1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain) Alternative form of smolder
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
      Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames.
  2. (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holinshed to this entry?)
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Noun

smoulder

  1. (obsolete) smoke; smother
    • 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres
      The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

Anagrams

  • R-modules, moulders, remoulds

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