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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)
- A dark grey colour.
- Grey hair.
- A grey wig.
Translations
Related terms
- grizzly
Adjective
grizzle
- Of a grey colour.
Verb
grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)
- 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.
- R. F. Burton
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)
- to cry continuously but not very loudly - especially of a young child.
- (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.
- 1888, William S. Gilbert (librettist), The Yeomen of the Guard, The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, page 510,
- (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)
- (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.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
- (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
- (obsolete) smoke; smother
- 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres
- The smoulder stops our nose with stench.
- 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres
Anagrams
- R-modules, moulders, remoulds
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