Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
frizz .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle.
- transitive verb To curl or form into small curls, as hair, with a crisping pin; to crisp.
- transitive verb To form into little burs, prominences, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
- transitive verb (Leather Manufacture) To soften and make of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
- transitive verb (Fabrics), (Wood Working) A bench with a revolving cutter head slightly protruding above its surface, for dressing boards.
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- noun Alternative form of
frizz .
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Examples
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Geoffreys do such things quite apart from their regular connection; it is a sort of 'behind the scenes;'"said Glossy Megilp, who was standing at Florence's dressing-glass, touching up the little heap of" friz "across her forehead.
Real Folks 1865
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It blew and snew and then it thew, and now, by jing, it's friz.
Weather sayings: Do they have any value? Don Lipman 2010
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Starting off in the seedy clubs and backdoor whiskey bars of Sunset Strip, writers will embrace their inner straight male lesbians and put on the fishnet stockings, friz their hair, and learn to type in falsetto to blazing riffs, tricky hooks, and pedantic sililoquies that would make Slash blush.
LOST Waves Back at Fans of the Nerd Persuasion wendigomountain 2008
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September 5, 2009 at 2:25 pm you bedder not hav eatd mai friz!
they had no toyz…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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The Lion Homespun turns into friz much too easily when it's left hanging loose; various people recommend knotting the ends, but I think it's safer to buy matching yarn that will fringe properly.
Archive 2007-10-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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The Lion Homespun turns into friz much too easily when it's left hanging loose; various people recommend knotting the ends, but I think it's safer to buy matching yarn that will fringe properly.
Bad Brain Day Susan Palwick 2007
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At that moment, when we in our wanderins had reached the furthest extremity that we attained onto, I tell you my blood friz, an my har riz in horror!
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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Then, the unhappy wight what acts as dry-nuss to his _Grandmother_, finding his writing on the pavement with red and white chalk and sentiment, won't friz, -- gives over appealing to the sympathies, kidnaps our comic offspring, and (as our brother dramatist Muster Sheridan says) disfigures 'em to make 'em look like his own.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841 Various
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A few tears were shed by Dulac over the thin lank locks he was called upon to friz, and when all was completed and he held aloft the girandole to light him down the back stairs used by members of the royal household to gain admission to the state apartments of the royal palace without passing through the crowd in the ante-room, the faithful fellow turned heartbroken to his master's chamber.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Thet I friz down right where I wuz, merried the Widder Shennon,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
alexz commented on the word friz
archaic from Scottish origin - " First it blew and then it snew and then it friz horrid" - Major Downino's Letters
January 26, 2013