different between grizzly vs bruin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????zli/
• Homophone: grisly

Etymology 1

From grizzle +? -y.

Adjective

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

1. Grey-haired, greyish.
2. Misspelling of grisly.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with grisly or gristly.

Synonyms

• (grey-haired): grizzled, grisly (misspelling), hoary; see also Thesaurus:elderly

Derived terms

• grizzly bear

Related terms

• silver-haired, silvery-haired
• white-haired

Noun

grizzly (plural grizzlies)

1. A grizzly bear.

   Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!

2. (US, dialect) In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.

Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

1. Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.

Translations

References

• grizzly at OneLook Dictionary Search
• grizzly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Alternative forms

• grizly

Etymology

English grizzly

Noun

grizzly m

1. grizzly, grizzly bear

Derived terms

• gryzzlí

Further reading

• grizzly in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• grizzly in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English grizzly.

Noun

grizzly

1. Synonym of orso grizzly

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English grizzly.

Noun

grizzly m (plural grizzly)

1. grizzly bear (A North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear)

Declension

Synonyms

• urs grizzly

References

grizzly in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bruin (“brown”) via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his brown color. Doublet of brown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?u??n/
• Rhymes: -u??n

Noun

bruin (plural bruins)

1. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XVII:

     The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].

Anagrams

• Bruni, Burin, Rubin, burin, rub in, rubin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bruin.

Adjective

bruin (attributive bruine, comparative bruiner, superlative bruinste)

1. brown

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brœy?n/
• Hyphenation: bruin
• Rhymes: -œy?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bruun, from Old Dutch *br?n, from Proto-Germanic *br?naz.

Adjective

bruin (comparative bruiner, superlative bruinst)

1. brown

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bruin
• ? Papiamentu: bruin
• ? Sranan Tongo: broin

Etymology 2

From the adjective bruin.

Noun

bruin n (uncountable)

1. the color brown

Noun

bruin c (uncountable)

1. (slang) heroin

Usage notes

The expression aan de bruin zijn is used for the addiction to heroin only, not for individual shots.

See also

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch bruin.

Adjective

bruin

1. brown