different between crimp vs frizzle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpan? (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ?ecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.

Adjective

crimp

1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

1. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

   The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.

2. The natural curliness of wool fibres.
3. (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
4. (obsolete) A card game.

Translations

Verb

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

1. To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
   • 1983, The Pacific Reporter (page 636)

     Casino employees and Gaming Control Board agents placed the table under observation. The deck in play was exchanged for a new deck, and the used deck was found to contain many crimped cards.

2. (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

   He crimped the wire in place.

3. To pinch and hold; to seize.
4. To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
5. To bend or mold leather into shape.
6. To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.

Derived terms

• crimper
• crimping tool

Translations

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.

Noun

crimp (plural crimps)

1. An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
2. (specifically, law) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
3. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Verb

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

1. (transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.

References

• crimp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crimp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• crimp at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• frizle, frisle, frizel, frizil

Etymology

From frizz +? -le. Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, fresle (“head of the hair, lock of hair”). More at frizz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Verb

frizzle (third-person singular simple present frizzles, present participle frizzling, simple past and past participle frizzled)

1. (transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled.
   • 1884, Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking

     Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.

2. (transitive) To scorch.
3. (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
   • 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, Act I, Scene 2, p. 22, [1]

     Now am I prouder of this poverty, which I know is mine own, than a waiting gentlewoman is of a frizzled groatsworth of hair, that never grew on her head.

   • 1713, John Gay, The Fan

     Who there frequents at these unmodish hours,
     But ancient matrons with their frizzled towers

Noun

frizzle (plural frizzles)

1. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
   • 1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth

     The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.

Anagrams

• Fizzler, fizzler