frizz

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɪz

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English frysen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin, perhaps via Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *fris (“curl”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), <span class="deprecated" title="Template:etyl is no longer in use. See WT:ETYM.">(deprecated template usage) [etyl] West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”).

Verb

frizz (third-person singular simple present frizzes, present participle frizzing, simple past and past participle frizzed)

1. (intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
2. (transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.
   • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Pepys and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     with her hair frizzed short up to her ears

   • 1937, John Betjeman, Slough

     In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.

   • Template:RQ:Chrsty Atbgrfy

     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; […]

3. To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
4. To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
5. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.

Related terms

• friseur
• frizzle

Translations

of hair: to form into a mass of curls

• Bulgarian: къдря (kǎdrja), накъдрям (bg) (nakǎdrjam)
• Finnish: kähertyä
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: kräuseln (de), verwuscheln (de)
• Norman: crêp'ler

to curl; to make frizzy

• Finnish: kähertää
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth

• Finnish: nukkaantua (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: aufrauen (de)

to make leather soft and of even thickness

• Finnish: pehmittää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above.

Noun

frizz (countable and uncountable, plural frizzes)

1. A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

Translations

mass of hair

• Bulgarian: къдрица (bg) (kǎdrica)
• Finnish: takku
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Krause (de) f

Further reading

• “frizz”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “frizz”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Spanish

Etymology

English frizz

Noun

frizz m (uncountable)

1. frizz (of hair)