frizz

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It can be applied to damp or dry hair and is supposed to reduce frizz, add shine, and make styling easier.

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb To form or be formed into small tight curls or tufts.
  2. noun The condition of being frizzed.
  3. noun A small tight curl or tuft.
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  • She was in her forties with skin tanned the color and texture of a good cigar, hair that had been bleached to canary yellow frizz, and a two-pack-a-day voice. —  One For The Money
  • Under the rather wide brim her hair stuck out in a faded frizz which had once been the colour of corn, but was now as old and dusty-looking as August stubble. —  She Came Back - Patricia Wentworth - aka The Traveller Returns - Miss Silver 09 - 1945
  • It claims to de-frizz and shine your hair while at the same time making it more managable and straighter. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • It can be applied to damp or dry hair and is supposed to reduce frizz, add shine, and make styling easier. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Pork, Daschel and the clintons corruption my o my barak better get MSNBC to spin this like a frizz-bee. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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  1. Alteration (influenced by frizzle2) of French friser, from Old French, possibly from frire, fris-, to fry, from Latin frīgere, to roast, fry.
  2. Possibly back-formation from frizzle1.
 

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