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frizzle

verb
/ˈfɹɪzəl/

Etymology

From frizz + -le. Cognate with West Frisian frisselje (“to plait, braid”), Old Frisian frisle, fresle (“head of the hair, lock of hair”). More at frizz.

  1. derived from *frisaz✻
  2. derived from *fris✻
  3. derived from friser
  4. inherited from frysen
  5. suffixed as frizzle — “frizz + le”

Definitions

  1. To fry something until crisp and curled.

    • Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.

  2. To scorch.

    • It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”

  3. To fry noisily, sizzle.

    • The bacon frizzled in the pan.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To curl or crisp, as hair

      To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.

      • Now am I prowder of this pouertie, which I know is mine owne, than a wayting gentlewoman is, of a frizled groateſworth of haire, that neuer grewe on her head: […]

    2. A curl

      A curl; a lock of hair crisped.

    3. A frizzle fowl

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA