FRIZZ • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Frizz

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Friz n. (pl. frizzes) (Written also frizz) That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. "He (Dr. Johnson), who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts."

verb

Frizz v. t. & v. i. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.

Friz v. t. (past & past part. frizzed; pres. part. frizzing) (Written also frizz)

To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp. "With her hair frizzed short up to her ears."

To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

(Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.

Frizzing machine.

(a)

(Fabrics) A machine for frizzing the surface of cloth.

(b)

(Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.

Frizz v. t., n. See Friz, v. t. & n.

See images of 'Frizz'

Etymology of 'Frizz'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Frizz" Quotes from Famous Books

... light from an incandescent tooth-brush sign opposite threw a pallid reflection upon Mrs. Connors; it spun the fuzz of frizz rising off her blond coiffure into a sort of golden fog and picked out the sequins of ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... girl—not ugly, but with irregular features and a pallid thick complexion. Her dark brown hair was naturally beautiful, and in later days looked well, loosely fastened with a tall comb at the back of her head; but in 1833 she wore it in an unbecoming tight curl and frizz. She had very beautiful eyes of hazel colour. "Kind, kindling, liquid eyes," says the friend who survives all that household. She had an aquiline nose, a large expressive, prominent mouth. She talked little. No grace or style in dress belonged to Emily, but under her awkward clothes her natural ...

— Emily Bront • A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

... pretty young lady on the other side of the table, whose snowy forehead, if you examined it closely, was marked with a red scar, in figure of a cross, which, although powdered and partially concealed by a frizz of her thick blonde hair, was sufficiently distinct to those who looked for it; and many did so, as they whispered to each other the story of how ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby