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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.

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Etymology of 'Frizz'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frizz" Quotes from Famous Books

... in a terrible frizz wi' the hook gnawing his vitals, and he swum about among the reeds near the bank in a manner to harrer your feelings. The line got tangled in the growing stuff, and I, so quick as an otter, pounced on him, and had him on the bank afore 'ee could say 'scat,' and there he ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... embellished by the unwonted addition of pound cake and sweet pickles, the dress-maker's sharp swarthy person stood out vividly between the neutral-tinted sisters. Miss Mellins was a small woman with a glossy yellow face and a frizz of black hair bristling with imitation tortoise-shell pins. Her sleeves had a fashionable cut, and half a dozen metal bangles rattled on her wrists. Her voice rattled like her bangles as she poured forth a stream of anecdote and ejaculation; and her ...

— Bunner Sisters • Edith Wharton

... 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

... 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

... of her head" or "brushed into a regal coronet," these being the styles in which the heroines in the novels invariably dressed their hair. A pigtail done in three was very unromantic. That was why, as a sort of compromise, she cut herself a fringe and began to frizz out the end of her plait. Her father stared at her, and said she looked like a shop-girl, when first he noticed it, and Esther told her she was a stupid child; but the looking-glass ...

— Seven Little Australians • Ethel Sybil Turner