Frizzle

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To curl or crisp, as hair; frizz.
  • To curl or Crisp in cooking: as, frizzled beef (dried or jerked beef sliced thin and crisped over the fire).
  • To curl; crisp.
  • noun. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
  • noun. A ribbed steel plate forming part of a gunlock, to receive the blow of the hammer. It occurs in the form of flint-lock which took the place of the wheel-lock.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
  • transitive verb. to crinkle or crisp excessively.
  • noun. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
  • verb. To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
  • verb. To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to fry something until crisp and curled
  • verb. to scorch
  • verb. to fry noisily
  • noun. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
  • noun. A ribbed steel plate forming part of a gunlock, which receives the blow of the hammer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. fry something until it curls and becomes crisp
  • verb. curl tightly
  • Word Usage
    "The high feverishness during a outset will frail a breast skin as well as close in a turkey juices so they do not frizzle away."
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