grizzly

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪzli/

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• Rhymes: -ɪzli
• 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], “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.

• Not to be confused with grisly or gristly.

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

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

grizzly (plural grizzlies)

2. A grizzly bear.

   Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!

4. (Canada, US, dialect, mining) A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining)^[1] or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher.

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

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

   a grizzly baby

• grizzliness

• “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.

• grizly

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrɪzlɪ]

grizzly m anim

1. grizzly, grizzly bear

• “grizzly”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “grizzly”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 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

• grizli

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡri.zli/

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• Rhymes: -izli
• Syllabification: grizz‧ly

grizzly m animal (indeclinable)

1. grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)

   Synonyms: niedźwiedź grizli, niedźwiedź szary

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

Unadapted borrowing from English grizzly.

grizzly m (plural grizzly)

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

   Synonym: urs grizzly

“grizzly”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025