different between frizzled vs frizzle

English

Verb

frizzled

1. simple past tense and past participle of 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)

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