grizzling
Low persistent complaining
Grizzling is quiet, persistent complaining or whimpering, especially by children.
A grizzling child isn't throwing a tantrum but making low, fretful sounds of discontent: The baby's been grizzling all afternoon.
The term is more common in British English.
Grizzling can also describe hair turning gray, from a different sense of grizzle meaning to become gray.
Muttering in discontent
- whingingPetulant, prolonged complaining
- moaningProlonged sound of distress
- gripingVoicing persistent complaints
- grousingHabitual petty complaining
whining · murmuring · bellyaching · kvetching · carping · fussing · nagging · bemoaning
Crying weakly, softly
- snivelingTearful, pitiful complaining
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- fussingAnxious, trivial agitation
- frettingAnxious rumination or surface wear
mewling · wailing · blubbering · weeping · teary · bawling · mizzling · greeting
grumbling
Muttering in discontent
- whingingPetulant, prolonged complaining
- moaningProlonged sound of distress
- gripingVoicing persistent complaints
grousing · whining · murmuring · bellyaching · kvetching · carping · fussing · nagging · bemoaning · lamenting
whimpering
Crying weakly, softly
- snivelingTearful, pitiful complaining
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- fussingAnxious, trivial agitation
fretting · mewling · wailing · blubbering · weeping · teary · bawling · mizzling · greeting
cranky
Ill-tempered and peevish
querulous · grouchy · tetchy · cross · fractious · crabby · cantankerous · testy · snappish · sulky
silvering
Depositing reflective metal coating
- greyingFading toward silver
- salt-and-pepperMixed gray and dark
- frostingSweet cake covering
- Roald Dahl wordsscrumdiddlyumptious, whangdoodle, jumbly