grizzly

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪzli/

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• Homophone: grisly

From grizzle +‎ -y.

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

1. Grey-haired, greyish.
2. Misspelling of grisly.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 10:

     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;...

   • 2009 February 5, Brown, Campbell, “Commentary: Pakistan gives in to terrorists”, in CNN‎:

     This after Taliban militants led a grizzly campaign of attacks, including beheadings, kidnappings and the destruction of dozens of girls' schools.

Not to be confused with grisly or gristly.

• (grey-haired): grizzled, grisly (misspelling), hoary; see also Thesaurus:elderly

• grizzly bear

• silver-haired, silvery-haired
• white-haired

grizzly (plural grizzlies)

1. A grizzly bear.

   Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!

2. (US, dialect) In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.[1]

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

1. Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.

   a grizzly baby

• grizzliness

• grizzly at OneLook Dictionary Search
• grizzly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• grizly

English grizzly

grizzly m

1. grizzly, grizzly bear

• gryzzlí

• grizzly in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• grizzly in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

grizzly m (plural grizzlys)

1. Alternative spelling of grizzli

• “grizzly”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

grizzly

1. Synonym of orso grizzly

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

grizzly m (plural grizzly)

1. grizzly bear (A North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear)

• urs grizzly

grizzly in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)