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grizzle

/ˈɡɹɪzəl//ˈɡɹɪzəl/

grizzle noun: a dark grey colour.

Noun

grizzle (plural grizzles)

  1. A dark grey colour.
  2. Grey hair.
  3. A grey wig.

Adjective

grizzle

  1. Of a grey colour.

Verb (1)

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.

Verb (2)

grizzle (third-person singular simple present grizzles, present participle grizzling, simple past and past participle grizzled)

  1. To cry continuously but not very loudly (said especially of young children).
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) To whinge or whine.
    • [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911
    • R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4850
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) To fuss or cry.
    • New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.1990, The Baby Book, →ISBN, page 88

Proper noun capitalized: Grizzle

Grizzle (plural Grizzles)

  1. A surname.

grizzle meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Arabic

grizzle in Tamil

நரை

grizzle in Bengali

ধূসর রং করা

grizzle in Malayalam

whimper, cry, mewl
വിഷമിച്ചുകരയുക, ചിണുങ്ങുക, ചിണുങ്ങിക്കരയുക, കുട്ടിയെപ്പോലെ കരയുക, ചിണുക്കുക, നിലവിളിക്കുക

grizzle in Arabic

Grey hair, grey wig
شَيْب šayb

Forms of grizzle

Noun
pluralgrizzles
Verb
third-person singular presentgrizzles
present participlegrizzling
past participlegrizzled
pastgrizzled
Proper noun
pluralGrizzles

Origin of grizzle

From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.

A West Country dialect term, perhaps from Old English grisan (“shudder”), which would make it a cognate of modern English grisly (not grizzly).

Words that rhyme with grizzle

Questions about grizzle

What does grizzle mean?
Grizzle means a dark grey colour.
What is grizzle in Tamil?
Grizzle in Tamil is நரை. See Grizzle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grizzle?
Grizzle can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce grizzle?
Grizzle is pronounced /ˈɡɹɪzəl/.
What is the plural of grizzle?
The plural of grizzle is grizzles.

Words near grizzle in the dictionary

  1. Grizzards
  2. Grizzel
  3. Grizzell
  4. Grizzells
  5. grizzes
  6. grizzle
  7. grizzled
  8. grizzled giant squirrel
  9. grizzled giant squirrels
  10. grizzled skipper
  11. grizzled skippers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grizzle (page history and authors); Grizzle (page history and authors); Grizzle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grizzle (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grizzle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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