The word "grizzled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is gray-haired and similar to items that have been exposed to age and wear. For example: "The grizzled schoolteacher had many years of experience."
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are now grizzled, grey-haired men, but still pack the showmanship and musicianship of real rock legends, even if this does mean indulgences such as drum battles (with Taylor's son, Rufus) and guitar solos that presumably require enough electricity to power a small town.
GIVEN how badly the world has fared in trying to solve many of its biggest problems, it is debatable whether the best source of advice is grizzled veterans.
Perhaps two-thirds of its customers in America are grizzled white guys.
But the bustling tea-stalls are a hint of how much Kurdistan has changed from the years under Saddam.I meet only two other Westerners during my time in Kurdistan, grizzled men from Johannesburg and Arizona.
The grizzled 60-year-old doctor won fame as a fearless student activist in the 1970s and spent 30 years as a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, five of them in prison during one of Mr Mubarak's periodic crackdowns.
They may be grizzled and brave, but in almost every country with a coastline, too many have proved themselves to be environmental vandals with no sense of their long-term interests, let alone those of the poor fish.Update, Friday 14th.
Some grizzled backbenchers complain of a cult of youth under Mr Cameron, but three rumoured candidates for the shadow cabinet Mr Clarke, Mr Davis and Lord Trimble, the former Ulster Unionist leader who is now a Tory peer are in their 60s.
Since then, the workplace has been feminised; in future it will be grizzled.
Even grizzled prospectors whooped when, after two hours and 48 minutes, the longest championship fight of the 20th century, Nelson was disqualified for a deliberate low blow.Extraordinary stoicism earned Gans his lasting popularity in America.
The grizzled old guard are at a loss.For the DPJ government the opposition's ineptitude has not mattered, so capable has it proved at self-destruction.
His ministers are cobbled together from Islamists, secular nationalists, grizzled warlords and white-collar émigrés.
