grizzle

1. 1.

   a grey wig

   Broaderwig

Other forms of grizzle

plural

grizzles·

past tense

grizzled·

present participle

grizzling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grizzle

What does grizzle mean?

grizzle means "be in a huff; be silent or sullen". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grizzle?

grizzle has 2 syllables: griz-zle. The stress falls on "griz". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹɪzəl/.

What is another word for grizzle?

Close synonyms include brood, stew, whine, yammer, yawp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grizzle a common word?

grizzle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.