Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- noun A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
- noun 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 the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
- transitive verb to crinkle or crisp excessively.
- noun A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
- verb To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
- verb To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
fry something untilcrisp andcurled - verb transitive to
scorch - verb intransitive to fry noisily
- noun A
curl ; alock of hair crisped. - noun A ribbed steel
plate forming part of agunlock , which receives the blow of the hammer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fry something until it curls and becomes crisp
- verb curl tightly
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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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 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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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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The sun was dipping behind the trees, and a frizzle of wind had risen up from somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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