grizzled adj: streaked or mixed with grey
not grizzly, not grisly (which would easily prompt images of my son's room), and certainly not gristly.
yup, just what i was thinking. there's only one way to go with this...
last winter my husband of soooo many years finally consented to grow a goatee. i don't know why, but i always wanted him to.
and it was grizzled... and my husband looked grizzled... and i thought it was soooo sexy! i understand why he shaved it off last summer (crumbs and scratchy and all), but i miss his grizzled goatee!
"Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don't know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were."
Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And don't know justly what we would be at—
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were."
George Gordon Noel Byron
It was certainly nice of him. :)
ReplyDeleteoh, i love grizzled! wonderful definition & post! p.s. beautiful falls in the background. Where is your husband in the photo?
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet interpretation, Lisa!
ReplyDeleteLove it! My husband has a goatee too, the kids won't let him shave it off. I can't wait to see when his look grizzled!
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