different between friz vs frim

English

Noun

friz (plural frizzes)

1. Dated form of frizz.
   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar full-bottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts.

Verb

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

1. Dated form of frizz.
   • 1870, Elizabeth Barker Comins, Marion Berkley

     "To friz, or not to friz! that is the question!" exclaimed Marion, as she turned from her looking-glass and appealed to Florence, who was buttoning her best-fitting cloth boots.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frî?z/
• Hyphenation: friz

Noun

fr?z m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (architecture) frieze

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frí?s/

Noun

fr?z m inan

1. (architecture) frieze

Inflection

Spanish

Noun

friz m (plural frices)

1. common beech, European beech

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English frym, from Old English freme (“vigorous, flourishing”), a secondary form of Old English fram (“strenuous, active, bold, strong”), from Proto-Germanic *framaz, *framiz (“forward, protruding”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“front, forth”). Cognate with German fromm (“strong, brave”), Old English framian (“to avail, profit”). More at frame.

Adjective

frim (comparative more frim, superlative most frim)

1. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Flourishing, thriving
2. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Vigorous
3. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Fresh; luxuriant
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, "Moses his birth and miracles" in The Muses Elizium lately discouered[1]:

     Through the Frim pastures freely at his leasure

Related terms

• frame

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of fremd.

Adjective

frim (comparative frimmer or more frim, superlative frimmest or most frim)

1. (Britain dialectal) Alternative form of fremd

   frim folk

Etymology 3

Adjective

frim (comparative more frim, superlative most frim)

1. (Judaism) Alternative form of frum

Anagrams

• fMRI, firm