# grizzly
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɹɪzli/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪzli
* Homophone: grisly

### Etymology 1

From grizzle +‎ -y.

#### Adjective

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)
* Grey-haired, greyish.
* 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:This after Taliban militants led a grizzly campaign of attacks, including beheadings, kidnappings and the destruction of dozens of girls' schools.

##### Usage notes

* Not to be confused with grisly or gristly.

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* grizzly bear

##### Related terms

* silver-haired, silvery-haired
* white-haired

#### Noun

grizzly (plural grizzlies)
* A grizzly bear.
    Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!
* (Canada, US, dialect, mining) A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher.

##### Derived terms

* grolar
* mama grizzly
* pizzly
* prizzly

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)
* Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.
    a grizzly baby

##### Derived terms

* grizzliness

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Grizzly”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
* “grizzly”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “grizzly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* grizly

### Etymology

Borrowed from English grizzly.

### Noun

grizzly m anim
* grizzly, grizzly bear

#### Derived terms

* gryzzlí

### Further reading

* “grizzly”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “grizzly”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## French
### Noun

grizzly m (plural grizzlys)
* Alternative spelling of grizzli

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

### Noun

grizzly
* Synonym of orso grizzly

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* grizli

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡri.zli/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -izli
* Syllabification: grizz‧ly

### Noun

grizzly m animal (indeclinable)
* grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)
    Synonyms: niedźwiedź grizli, niedźwiedź szary

### Further reading

* grizzly in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* grizzly in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

### Noun

grizzly m (plural grizzly)
* grizzly bear (A North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear)
    Synonym: urs grizzly

#### References

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