Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To wear away along the edges; fray.
- v. To exhaust physically or emotionally.
- v. To become worn away along the edges.
- v. To become exhausted physically or emotionally.
- n. A frayed or tattered condition.
- n. A condition of exhaustion: worked themselves to a frazzle.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To ravel out, as the edge of a fabric; unravel; fray.
- To wear, as by hard usage, into shreds, rags, or tatters; fray out; tear to pieces.
- n. A shred; a tatter; a frayed rag; a frayed or worn-out condition: as, to be worn to a frazzle.
Wiktionary
- v. To fray or wear down, especially at the edges.
- v. To drain emotionally or physically
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. & U. S. To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; -- used literally and figuratively.
- n. Prov. Eng. & U. S. The act or result of frazzling; the condition or quality of being frazzled; the tag end; a frayed-out end.
- n. a state of extreme exhaustion; -- often used in the phrase worn to a frazzle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state of extreme exhaustion
- v. exhaust physically or emotionally
- v. wear away by rubbing
Etymologies
- Perhaps a blend of fray2 and dialectal fazzle, to unravel (from Middle English facelyn, to fray, from fasel, frayed edge, probably diminutive of fas, rootlets, from Old English fæs). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The escape of even a "frazzle" of the 5th Corps was due to their superhuman energy and exertions.”
“My brother, who was one of them, told me that at the time the white flag was raised by Gen. Lee this same "frazzle" was driving the enemy in its front!”
“They worked so hard having a good time all day, and late into the evening, that they were ‘worn to a frazzle’ when Monday morning came.”
“If all the railroad boys had come out, wouldn't the shop men have won instead of bein 'licked to a frazzle?”
“So young was he that he quickly became footsore, and she carried him until Billy perched him on top of his pack and grumbled that Possum was chewing his back hair to a frazzle.”
“The ladies of "The View" worked Barbara Walters up into a frenzied frazzle on Thursday's show.”
“You will not see my hand made clothes in a second hand shop or garage sale, because I will first of all, wear them to a frazzle, then made something else from them, and if there is any wear left, crochet a rug or use it for something else.”
“I could do wonders with that crimson frazzle of yours.”
“Obama did not do that to you, GWB/Cheney did a good job of screwing the country to a frazzle.”
“NOW clown him acrobatic descent spread him bubblegum carpet frazzle him gutter kebab cosy him comatose pocket soak him leaking bladder warm him reeking arse speed him indecent teeth will tear him apart”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘frazzle’.
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
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Down in Pine Ridge
Words heard on the radio program, Lum and Abner.
sassafras, tolerably, reckon, grannies, doggies, flat-footed, drummer, county seat, mum, almanac, frazzle
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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Words that have gone out of fashion
words are fashionable -wane and wax - in usage. This is an open list of those words now out of fashion.
marconigram, flapper, bully, glockenspiel, periphrastic, bouffant, cackle, oldfangled, brigadoon, nohow, cat-salt, indecorous and 45 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Trump that synonym!
Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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silverthread's Words
kerfuffle, ponder, hither, thither, persnickety, manhandle, fondle, snarky, trundle, truffle, fluffy, mangle and 90 more...
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Thunderfoot's Words
lugubrious, salacious, vituperative, foist, foment, embolism, stygian, mellifluous, bildungsroman, shirk, crone, elide and 173 more...
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IvanGoneKrazy's list
Words that are fun to say or think about.
lull, slide, laze, languish, splunk, quibble, quaff, synchronicity, salience, thrice, sublime, serendipity and 5 more...
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jadecat's Words
medulla oblongata, scantiness, extravagence, stigma, muck, dilapidated, endowment, buccaneer, qualms, frolic, toot, fandango and 32 more...
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Double Z
Words at least five letters long with zz in the middle.
fuzzy, nuzzle, fizzle, puzzle, sizzle, razzle, dazzle, guzzle, dizzy, grizzle, drizzle, muzzle and 5 more...
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brin1d2lynn's list
Dooflobbie
Thingamajig
Hootendibbler
Whatchamacallit
Trifling
Mullish
Obstreperous
Impudent
Insolent
Crabby
Cranky
Idiocy
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In the family
Words that members of my family like using, some of them madeupical.
moose, fricasseed, darus, frazzle, gallivanting, exhausticated, skedaddle, skibbledy-hop, heffalump, narnia, couthless, tinaminamiasis and 36 more...
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