GRIZZLE

PRONUNCIATION: (GRIZ-uhl)

MEANING: verb tr.: To make gray.
verb intr.: 1. To turn gray.
2. To fuss; to gripe or grumble.
noun: 1. An animal with gray or grizzled fur.
2. Gray hair.
adjective: 1. Having gray hair.
2. Gray.

ETYMOLOGY: For the color-related senses: from Old French grisel, diminutive of gris (gray).
For the grumble sense: origin unknown.
Earliest documented use: 1390.
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FRIZZLE - uneven, standing on its end (said of narrow slender things like hair or grass)

GRINZLE - a mythical monster reported in the folklore of Middle-Ages Britain

GORIZZLE - a renegade Great Ape, native to the deepest African jungle