If someone's hair is streaked with gray, you can describe it as grizzled. Your dad's grizzled beard might need a trim by the end of your two-week camping trip.

Definitions of grizzled

As well as a good way to talk about the silvery hair (or facial hair) itself, you can also describe a person as grizzled. Before he went totally white-haired, Santa Claus must have been grizzled. This adjective comes from a 14th-century noun, grizzle, which meant both ‘gray-haired old man’ and ‘gray horse,’ and probably came from the Old French grisel, ‘gray.’

Question

Who would most likely be grizzled?

A. a mischievous toddler

B. a rebellious teenager

C. a young pop singer

D. a great-grandfather

Right Answer:- D. a great-grandfather

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