grayhead
English
Alternative forms
Noun
grayhead (plural grayheads)
- (Canada, US) A person with gray hair; an elderly person.
- 2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:
- What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems.
Synonyms
- greybeard, hoarhead; see also Thesaurus:old person
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