frizz
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɹɪz/
frizz (frizzes, present participle frizzing; past and past participle frizzed)
- (intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
- (transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.
- with her hair frizzed short up to her ears
- 1937, John Betjeman, Slough (poem)
- In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […]
- To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
- To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
- To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
- German: kräuseln, verwuscheln
- German: aufrauen
frizz
- A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
- German: Krause
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