Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

frizzle2

Pronunciation: /ˈfrɪz(ə)l/

Definition of frizzle

verb

[with object]
  • form (hair) into tight curls: the damp weather had frizzled her hair into little corkscrews (as adjective frizzled)she shook out her frizzled hair

noun

  • a tight curl in hair: a dewy scalp where the frizzles stuck awry [in combination]:this gaunt, frizzle-haired freak

Derivatives

frizzly

adjective

Origin:

mid 16th century: from frizz + -le4

frizzle in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of frizzle in the US English dictionary
  |  Cite

More results for frizzle

Word of the day

synodic

/ sɪˈnɒdɪk /
adjective
relating to or involving the conjunction of celestial objects …