grayhead

noun

grayhead

noun

Etymology From gray + head.

1

Canada, US A person with gray hair; an elderly person.

  • 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.2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:
Synonyms
greybeard, hoarhead

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