frizzled

English

Etymology

From frizzle +‎ -ed.

Adjective

frizzled (comparative more frizzled, superlative most frizzled)

1. Of feathers, hair, etc.: crisped or curled; crinkled, frizzed; also, of a person's head, etc.: covered with curled hair, or something similar to that.
   • a. 1733 (date written), John Gay, “[Eclogues.] The Toilet. A Town Eclogue.”, in Thomas Park, editor, The Poetical Works of John Gay. […], volume III, London: […] [A]t the Stanhope Press, by C[harles] Whittingham; for John Sharpe, […], published 1812, →OCLC, page 63:

     Who there frequents at these unmodish hours, / But ancient matrons with their frizzled towers, / And grey religious maids?

Verb

frizzled

1. simple past and past participle of frizzle