different between frizzle vs frizz

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

English

Alternative forms

• friz (dated)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??z/
• Rhymes: -?z

Etymology 1

From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, fr?sle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English fr?s (“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.

   • with her hair frized short up to her ears

   • 1937, John Betjeman, Slough

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

   • 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

Etymology 2

From 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

Further reading

• frizz in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• frizz at OneLook Dictionary Search

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English frizz.

Noun

frizz m (uncountable)

1. frizz (of hair)