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noun

Frazzle n.

The act or result of frazzling; the condition or quality of being frazzled; the tag end; a frayed-out end. (Prov. Eng. & U. S.) "My fingers are all scratched to frazzles."

A state of extreme exhaustion; often used in the phrase worn to a frazzle. "Gordon had sent word to Lee that he "had fought his corps to a frazzle.""

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Etymology of 'Frazzle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frazzle" Quotes from Famous Books

... half-past ten or eleven, an' we can make the split rock water-hole before it gets too hot for the horses to travel. It's the hottest spell for June I ever saw and if she don't let up tomorrow the range will be burnt to a frazzle." ...

— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

... of these niggers puts their mistakes on the white folks. It's easier to do right than wrong cause right whips wrong every time into a frazzle. ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... of me the way they did last winter. Look out, there!" he cried, as Mr. Anthony laid his hand on the head of a Jersey calf that backed awkwardly from under his grasp. "Don't let her get a hold of your coat-tail; she chawed mine to a frazzle the other day; the girls pet her so much she ...

— The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories • Margaret Collier Graham

... Allison decidedly. "Cloudy looks worn to a frazzle, and I'm sick to death of the city. Let's beat it back to where they have good air. We can go right to bed after dinner, and get up good and early, and be here as soon as the stores are open. They don't open till nine o'clock. I saw the ...

— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill

... I think you are right there. My nervous system is so delicately attuned that anything in the shape of a brawl would reduce it to a frazzle. I think that, for this occasion only, we will promote Comrade Maloney to the post of editor. He is a stern, hard, rugged man who does not care how unpopular he is. Yes, I think that would ...

— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse

... that is so, but folks might get worn all to a frazzle by the flying-out ones before the long run. I'd rather take my chances with a woman like Eudora. She always seems just so, just as calm and sweet. When the Ames's barn, that was next to hers, burned down and the wind was her way, she just walked in and out of ...

— The Yates Pride • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... there lurks a blood brother to the first pest! I defy you to get out of that cemetery without buying something of no value from one or the other, or both of them. The Communists made their last stand in Pere Lachaise. So did I. They went down fighting. Same here. They were licked to a frazzle. ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

Words linked to "Frazzle" : wear out, tucker out, fall apart, colloquialism, break, tucker, wear, bust, fray