grizzling

[ griz-ling ]

noun

, British.

1. the act of complaining or whimpering.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grizzling¹

grizzle ² + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’

From Literature

So when a grizzling baby is brought onto a bus where Rosie is sitting, we see only her softening reaction to it.

From New York Times

Then my three younger brothers set up their own grizzling chorus about how unfair it was that they didn’t get paid for anything.

From Literature

In my case, a young woman “nipping in” with a grizzling toddler once meant that I found myself forlorn and embarrassed, sitting in soggy knickers and left with a rank chair cushion.

From The Guardian

“I was bouncing her up and down and she was still grizzling, so I walked outside with her.”

From Literature