Frizz

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  • intransitive verb. To fry or burn with a sizzling noise.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sizzling noise while frying or searing.
  • transitive & intransitive verb . To form or be formed into small tight curls or tufts.
  • noun. The condition of being frizzed.
  • noun. A small tight curl or tuft.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That which is frizzed or curled; a wig, as covered with frizzes: as, a frizz of hair.
  • To curl; crisp; form into a mass of small, loose, crisp curls, as the hair, with a crisping-pin; specifically, to crisp and then loosen out so as to form a light, fluffy mass of little curls.
  • To form into little burs, prominences, or knots, as the nap of cloth; raise a nap or bur on.
  • In leather-dressing, to remove the bur, prominences, or roughnesses from, as chamois and wash-leather, by rubbing with pumicestone, a blunt knife, or the like, in order to soften the surface and give a uniform thickness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb. See friz, v. t. & n.
  • verb. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
  • noun. A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the condition of being formed into small tight curls
  • verb. curl tightly
  • Word Usage
    "My hair was always stick straight until a few years ago, I noticed a definite "frizz" starting to develop, much to my horror!"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    condition  curl  status  wave  
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    curl  sizzle  
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    friz  
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