[syn: whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grizzle \Griz"zle\, n. [F. gris: cf. grisaille hair partly gray,
fr. gris gray. See Gris, and cf. Grisaille.]
Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grizzle \Griz"zle\, v. t. & i.
To make or become grizzly, or grayish.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little
children. --R. F.
Burton.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with
a
grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey. --Pall
Mall Mag.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grizzle \Griz"zle\, v. i. & t. [Etym. uncertain.]
To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [Prov. Eng.] "Don't
sit grizzling there." --Charles Reade.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grizzle
n 1: a grey wig
v 1: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, brood,
stew]
2: complain whiningly [syn: whine, grizzle, yammer,
yawp]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "grizzle":
Quaker-colored, acier, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, besnow, blanch,
bleach, buckskin, calico pony, canescent, chalk, chestnut,
cinereous, cinerous, dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray,
dingy, dismal, dove-colored, dove-gray, dreary, dull, dun, dusty,
etiolate, frost, glaucescent, glaucous, gray, gray-black,
gray-brown, gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-spotted,
gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, griseous, grizzled,
grizzly, iron-gray, lead-gray, leaden, livid, mouse-colored,
mouse-gray, mousy, paint, painted pony, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly,
piebald, pinto, roan, sad, silver, silver-gray, silvered, silvery,
skewbald, slate-colored, slaty, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, somber,
sorrel, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, taupe, white, whiten