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GRIZZLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A grey wig

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("grizzle" is a kind of...):

wig (hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair)

Derivation:

grizzly (showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Complain whiningly

Synonyms:

grizzle; whine; yammer; yawp

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "grizzle" is one way to...):

complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

Verb group:

snivel; whine (talk in a tearful manner)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in a huff; be silent or sullen

Synonyms:

brood; grizzle; stew

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "grizzle" is one way to...):

brood; pout; sulk (be in a huff and display one's displeasure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

The coat is wiry and straight and come in red, wheaten, tan, black and tan, and grizzle - occasionally with white markings.

(Norfolk Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Their coats are wiry and straight and come in red, wheaten, tan, black and tan, and grizzle - occasionally with white markings.

(Norwich Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

The coat should be tan with black (or dark grizzle) markings.

(Airedale Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

She was a placid-faced woman, with large, gentle eyes, and grizzled hair curving down over her temples on each side.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hunters, grizzled and gray, and lusty and young, were aghast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Grizzled old sailors were among the people, shaking their heads, as they looked from water to sky, and muttering to one another; ship-owners, excited and uneasy; children, huddling together, and peering into older faces; even stout mariners, disturbed and anxious, levelling their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as if they were surveying an enemy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wounded as he was, it was wonderful how fast he could move, his grizzled hair tumbling over his face, and his face itself as red as a red ensign with his haste and fury.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual smell of drink.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)