grizzled

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Grizzled means having hair turned grey with age. A grizzled veteran, grizzled beard, grizzled and weathered.

It usually carries respect — a grizzled sergeant has survived things — and it is used of men far more than of women. The grizzly bear takes its name from the same grey-tipped look rather than from anything grisly.

Definitions of grizzled

1adjectivegrizzledHaving hair turned grey with age.C1
“A grizzled old fisherman sat mending his nets on the quay.”

grizzled is a quality of hair.

Where it comes from

Proto-Germanic
*grīsaz
Frankish
*grīs
Old French
grisel
Middle English
grisel
English
grizzle
English, today
grizzled

Built from

gris · Old French — grey

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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grizzled in the wild

Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers.
Pyrgus
The Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary (GSWS), also known as Srivilliputhur Wildlife Sanctuary, was established in 1988 to protect the Near threatened grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura).
Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary
Oligoryzomys griseolus, also known as the grizzled colilargo or the grayish pygmy rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus Oligoryzomys of family Cricetidae.
Oligoryzomys griseolus
The grizzled tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus) is a furry, long-tailed mammal native to tropical rainforests on the island of New Guinea (split between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea).
Grizzled tree-kangaroo
Spialia dromus, the forest sandman, dromus grizzled skipper or large grizzled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.
Spialia dromus

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the gris family

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