frizz

Meanings

Verb

• Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
• To curl; to make frizzy.
• To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
• To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
• To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.

Noun

• A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

Origin

• , Old English frīs ("crisped, curled").
• From Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above.