Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To fry (something) until crisp and curled: frizzled the bacon.
- v. To scorch or sear with heat.
- v. To fry or sear with a sizzling noise.
- v. To form or cause to be formed into small tight curls; frizz.
- n. A small tight curl.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To curl or crisp, as hair; frizz.
- To curl or Crisp in cooking: as, frizzled beef (dried or jerked beef sliced thin and crisped over the fire).
- To curl; crisp.
- n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
- n. A ribbed steel plate forming part of a gunlock, to receive the blow of the hammer. It occurs in the form of flint-lock which took the place of the wheel-lock.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive to fry something until crisp and curled
- v. transitive to scorch
- v. intransitive to fry noisily
- n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
- n. A ribbed steel plate forming part of a gunlock, which receives the blow of the hammer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
- v. To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
- v. To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.
- n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
WordNet 3.0
- v. fry something until it curls and becomes crisp
- v. curl tightly
Etymologies
- From frizz + -le. Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, fresle ("head of the hair, lock of hair"). More at frizz. (Wiktionary)
- Possibly blend of fry1 and sizzle.Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The high feverishness during a outset will frail a breast skin as well as close in a turkey juices so they do not frizzle away.”
“The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful.”
“In a panic I ran to the kitchen and unplugged my laptop for fear it would frizzle up in the next bolt of lightning.”
“At one of the lectures he held from Thursday through Monday in Delhi— immaculately dressed, and with a mane of silvery white cerebral frizzle on his head— he held forth on subjects like State of the Lie, Lie of the State.”
“After spending most of his life on the dry side of the mountains, he would be living in a damp coastal climate where a favorite local word is frizzle freezing drizzle.”
“The sun was dipping behind the trees, and a frizzle of wind had risen up from somewhere.”
“Once there was a young moth who did not believe that the proper end for all mothkind was a zish and a frizzle.”
“My hair, oh, my hair!' wailed Meg, looking with dispair at the uneven frizzle on her forehead.”
“Nothing can possibly be clearer; all that I can do is to frizzle, cut, and powder them; but I have nothing to do with producing them.”
“She was too fresh and guileless, and too full of child – like vivacity, was the youngest Miss Pecksniff, to wear combs in her hair, or to turn it up, or to frizzle it, or braid it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frizzle’.
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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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SweetZingiber's list
tmesis, dilatory, palzogony, levigate, syzygy, iteration, frizzle, carraque, equipoise, paean, rictus, saturnine
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gyre - enquired & unquired
Early in the fall, I watched several hundred eagles riding gyres - higher and higher - as they caught a lift on their migration South. An enquire and unquire of gyre appears called for.
Argyre, argyre planitia, gyreful, Gyrfalcon, gyrencephala, curl, curlicue, gyral, whorl, jabberwocky, gyre, frizzle and 21 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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If Snoop Dogg made a list
Fo' shizzle my chizzle, here's a lizzle!
sizzle, swizz, swizzle, twizzle, whizz, wrizzle, bedrizzle, bizz, crizzle, dizz, drizzle, hizz and 14 more...
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Unusual Words
katzenjammer, waylay, insipid, endocarp, gaily, turtling, bulbul, Morgan, clabber, phonetician, hatband, hippopotomonstros... and 9 more...
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stragglers
double consonant -le verbs
hobble, straggle, huddle, hassle, addle, tattle, stipple, tipple, fiddle, peddle, coddle, cobble and 59 more...
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fabulous words
frizzle
slammerkin
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