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Grizzly

//ˈɡɹɪzli// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Grey-haired, greyish.
  2. 2
    Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.

    "a grizzly baby"

  3. 3
    Misspelling of grisly. alt-of, misspelling

    "The walls were entirely hidden by bookshelves, or by cases containing rare specimens of fossil bones and reptile skeletons. Here was a grizzly crocodile, its teeth white and sharp as when they glistened in the waters of the Nile;..."

Adjective
  1. 1
    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A grizzly bear.

    "Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!"

  2. 2
    powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America wordnet
  3. 3
    A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher. Canada, US, dialectal

Etymology

Etymology 1

From grizzle + -y.

Etymology 2

From grizzle + -y.

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