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English
Etymology
From grey + haired.
Adjective
grey-haired (not comparable)
- Having grey hair.
2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.
- (by extension, figurative) old, wise, experienced.
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Translations
having grey hair
- Arabic: أَشْيَب (ʔašyab)
- Armenian: ալեզարդ (hy) (alezard)
- Bulgarian: посивял (bg) (posivjal)
- Crimean Tatar: çalbaş
- Czech: šedivý (cs) m
- Danish: gråhåret
- Dutch: grijsharig (nl)
- Finnish: harmaatukkainen, harmaahapsinen
- French: chenu (fr)
- Hungarian: ősz (hu), őszhajú
- Icelandic: gráhærður
- Irish: liath (ga), ceannliath
- Italian: brizzolato (it)
- Latin: cānus (la)
- Lithuanian: žilas m
- Macedonian: си́вокос (sívokos)
- Malay: beruban
- Maori: hinahina, tārekoreko
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gråhåret, gråhåra
- Nynorsk: gråhåra, gråhærd
- Plautdietsch: greiwhoarich
- Polish: siwowłosy (pl)
- Portuguese: grisalho (pt)
- Russian: седо́й (ru) (sedój), седовла́сый (ru) (sedovlásyj), седоволо́сый (ru) (sedovolósyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: sed (sh), sedokos
- Spanish: canoso (es)
- Swedish: gråhårig (sv)
- Tausug: ubanan
- Ukrainian: си́вий m (sývyj), сивоволо́сий (syvovolósyj)
- Welsh: penllwyd
- Yup'ik: qaingqellria
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