Frizzle

Quick meaning: Frizzle is a verb meaning (transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled.

Meaning

(transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To scorch.
2. (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.
3. (ambitransitive) To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
4. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
5. A frizzle fowl

Example Sentences

The bacon frizzled in the pan.

Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.

Now am I prowder of this pouertie, which I know is mine owne, than a wayting gentlewoman is, of a frizled groateſworth of haire, that neuer grewe on her head: […]

It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”

Word Forms

• frizzles
• frizzling
• frizzled
• frizle
• frisle
• frizel
• frizil

Synonyms for frizzle

Depending on context, synonyms include crimp, frizz, crape, kink.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frizz, crape, crimp, kink, curl, crepe.

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