GRIZZLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grizzled mean? 

• GRIZZLED (adjective)
  The adjective GRIZZLED has 1 sense:

1. having dark hairs mixed with grey or white

  Familiarity information: GRIZZLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIZZLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having dark hairs mixed with grey or white

Similar:

brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)

 Context examples 

Though the grizzled old fellow could see only on one side, against the youth and vigour of the other he brought into play the wisdom of long years of experience.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“What then would you propose?” asked Sir Simon, shaking his grizzled head as one who is but half convinced.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In person he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A minute later we heard steps upon the stairs, and an elderly red-faced man with grizzled side-whiskers was ushered in.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this worn face, Charles, and in this grizzled hair, you may read the diary of my most miserable existence.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hunters, grizzled and gray, and lusty and young, were aghast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Grizzled old sailors were among the people, shaking their heads, as they looked from water to sky, and muttering to one another; ship-owners, excited and uneasy; children, huddling together, and peering into older faces; even stout mariners, disturbed and anxious, levelling their glasses at the sea from behind places of shelter, as if they were surveying an enemy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Wounded as he was, it was wonderful how fast he could move, his grizzled hair tumbling over his face, and his face itself as red as a red ensign with his haste and fury.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)