grayhead en · NOUN
Etymology
From gray + head.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| greyhead | alternative | lexicographic | |
| grayheads | Number=Plur | lexicographic |