Word Meanings - FRIZZLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. Gay. To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively. (more info) Etym:

Related words: (words related to FRIZZLE)

• FRIZZLER
  One who frizzles.
• CRISPER
  One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
• CRINKLED
  Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.
• CRINKLE
  To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the
• CRISPATURE
  The state of being crispate.
• CRISPIN
  1. A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft. 2. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
• CRISPATE; CRISPATED
  Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
• CRISPY
  1. Formed into short, close ringlets; frizzed; crisp; as, crispy locks. 2. Crisp; brittle; as. a crispy pie crust.
• CRISP
  1. Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair. 2. Curled with the ripple of the water. You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak. 3. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp
• CRISPNESS
  The state or quality of being crisp.
• CRISPLY
  In a crisp manner.
• FRIZZLE
  To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. Gay. To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively. (more info) Etym:
• CRISPATION
  1. The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled. Bacon. 2. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O.
• ENCRISPED
  Curled. Skelton.