Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Tightly curled.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Loosely-crisp; curly: as, “light, frizzly hair,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Curled or crisped.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having small, tight curls

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of hair) in small tight curls

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Examples

  • Billy Green, at the moment, was training a tiny, nondescript, frizzly-haired dog.

    CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

  • Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • A lady came in to the library today sporting a goodly crop of frizzly chin hairs of, I kid you not, nearly two inches in length.

    Random Thoughts on Hair kittenpie 2006

  • A lady came in to the library today sporting a goodly crop of frizzly chin hairs of, I kid you not, nearly two inches in length.

    Archive 2006-03-01 kittenpie 2006

  • Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.

    The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007

  • The natives of Aru, on the other hand, are, Papuans, with black or sooty brown skims, woolly or frizzly hair, thick-ridged prominent noses, and rather slender limbs.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • They delight in combing, or rather forking it, using for that purpose a large wooden fork with four diverging prongs, which answers the purpose of separating and arranging the long tangled, frizzly mass of cranial vegetation much better than any comb could do.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

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