英和和英

語源 1

From grizzle +‎ -y.

形容詞

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

1. Grey-haired, greyish.
2. Misspelling of grisly.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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, Campbell Brown, “Commentary: Pakistan gives in to terrorists”, in CNN‎^[1]:

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

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with grisly or gristly.

同意語

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

派生語

• grizzly bear

関連する語

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

名詞

grizzly (複数形 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]

派生語

• mama grizzly

形容詞

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

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

   a grizzly baby

派生語

• grizzliness

参照

• grizzly at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “grizzly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.