different between crinkle vs frizzle
crinkle
English
Etymology
From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringan? (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k???k?l/
- Rhymes: -??k?l
Verb
crinkle (third-person singular simple present crinkles, present participle crinkling, simple past and past participle crinkled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
- (intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
- 1908, John Townsend Trowbridge, Vagabonds and other poems
- The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
- 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh
- All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
- 1908, John Townsend Trowbridge, Vagabonds and other poems
Derived terms
- crinkle-patterned
- uncrinkle
Translations
Noun
crinkle (plural crinkles)
- A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
- The act of crinkling
Derived terms
- crinkly
Translations
Anagrams
- Clinker, clinker
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frizzle
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)
- (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.
- 1884, Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking
- (transitive) To scorch.
- (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.
- (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
- Who there frequents at these unmodish hours,
- 1599, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904, Act I, Scene 2, p. 22, [1]
Noun
frizzle (plural frizzles)
- 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.
- 1911, Jack London, The Whale Tooth
Anagrams
- Fizzler, fizzler
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