Grayhead
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person with gray hair; an elderly person. Canada, US
"What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems."
Example
More examples"What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems."
Etymology
From gray + head.
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