Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To fry (something) until crisp and curled: frizzled the bacon.
- transitive v. To scorch or sear with heat.
- intransitive v. To fry or sear with a sizzling noise.
- transitive v. To form or cause to be formed into small tight curls; frizz.
- n. A small tight curl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. to fry something until crisp and curled
- v. to scorch
- v. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
- 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.
- transitive v. To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. fry something until it curls and becomes crisp
- v. curl tightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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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.
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The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful.
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In a panic I ran to the kitchen and unplugged my laptop for fear it would frizzle up in the next bolt of lightning.
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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.
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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.
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The sun was dipping behind the trees, and a frizzle of wind had risen up from somewhere.
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Once there was a young moth who did not believe that the proper end for all mothkind was a zish and a frizzle.
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My hair, oh, my hair!' wailed Meg, looking with dispair at the uneven frizzle on her forehead.
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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.
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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.
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