A person with gray hair, often referring to an older person or someone perceived as old-fashioned.
Compound word from gray plus hair. Simple descriptive term that focuses on the most visible marker of aging; used colloquially to refer to elderly people or those seen as out of touch with modern trends.
The term reveals how humans judge age by appearance—gray hair became such a universal marker that we use it as shorthand for 'older person,' even when individual gray hairs started appearing!
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