grizzly

From grizzle +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪzli/
• Homophone: grisly

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

1. Grey-haired, greyish.
   • Francis Bacon

     old squirrels that turn grizzly

2. Misspelling of grisly.
   • 2008, Campbell Brown, " Commentary: Pakistan gives in to terrorists," CNN, Feb. 5, 2009:

     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.

• grisly (misspelling)

• grizzly bear

grizzly (plural grizzlies)

1. A grizzly bear.

   Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

• 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

Borrowed from English grizzly.

grizzly

1. Synonym of orso grizzly

Borrowed 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)