Frizz

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To form or be formed into small tight curls or tufts.
  • n. The condition of being frizzed.
  • n. A small tight curl or tuft.
  • v. To fry or burn with a sizzling noise.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a sizzling noise while frying or searing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
  • n. A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. See friz, v. t. & n.
  • v. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To curl; crisp; form into a mass of small, loose, crisp curls, as the hair, with a crisping-pin; specifically, to crisp and then loosen out so as to form a light, fluffy mass of little curls.
  • To form into little burs, prominences, or knots, as the nap of cloth; raise a nap or bur on.
  • In leather-dressing, to remove the bur, prominences, or roughnesses from, as chamois and wash-leather, by rubbing with pumicestone, a blunt knife, or the like, in order to soften the surface and give a uniform thickness.
  • n. That which is frizzed or curled; a wig, as covered with frizzes: as, a frizz of hair.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the condition of being formed into small tight curls
  • v. curl tightly
  • Verb Form
    frizzed    frizzes    frizzing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    condition    status    curl    wave   
    Variant
    friz   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sizzle    curl   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts