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  • verb Present participle of grizzle.

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Examples

  • Now, JB, we love the guts off your work and but this grizzling is getting a little “leave JB alone” whiny ass bitch sounding … but then we all get a little grumpy this time of year.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Yes I get ffkn grmpy whn I’m on fkn deadline. 2009

  • It appeared that as she ran after them to beat them, she had fallen down; her cap was awry, and her dress covered with mud; they called out that she was tipsy (as often happens to those poor old "grizzling" people in the country who have met misfortune).

    An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

  • Aunt Ursel would have called 'grizzling' in her room for an hour, she wrote her note to Miss Ruthven and endeavoured to be as usual, feeling keenly that there was no mother now to perceive and gratefully commend one of her only too rare efforts for good humour.

    Nuttie's Father Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • I can't hate her pretty face or feel angry about her introspective grizzling about "not being spoiled" as this really is her personal solemn truth.

    Tamara Ecclestone: Billion $$ Girl – Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • She stepped over the body, let herself into her flat with a shaking hand, and once inside, the boy half-awake and grizzling, she dialled 999.

    Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

  • In age he may have been about fifty, with a strongjawed, rugged face, a grizzling moustache, peculiarly keen gray eyes, and a wiry, vigorous figure which had lost nothing of the strength and activ - ity of youth.

    Chennai 2010

  • Worse, the nation read about me moaning and grizzling because The Guardian quoted it almost in full.

    St Bookaholicbuyfromus 2006

  • Worse, the nation read about me moaning and grizzling because The Guardian quoted it almost in full.

    St Bookaholicbuyfromus 2006

  • In today's South Manchester Reporter poor old John Leech MP is chuntering and grizzling about Gordon Brown's slamming of the Lib Dem record of broken promises on a recent visit.

    Leech-Watch: Libby Nick Clegg Gets Bird From Students 2008

  • Worse, the nation read about me moaning and grizzling because The Guardian quoted it almost in full.

    52 entries from October 2006 2006

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