Grizzle
Grizzle , noun
[French gris: compare grisaille hair partly gray, from gris gray. See Gris, and compare Grisaille.]
Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black. — Shakespeare
Grizzle , verb, transitive and intransitive
To make or become grizzly, or grayish.
Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children.
I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a
grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.
Grizzle , verb, intransitive and transitive
[Etym. uncertain.]
To worry; to fret; to bother; grumble. [Provincial English]
Don't sit grizzling there.