Crossword clues for frizzle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frizzle \Friz"zle\, n.
A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
--Milton.
Frizzle \Friz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frizzled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Frizzling.] [Dim. of friz.]
To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
--Gay.
To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.
Frizzle \Friz"zle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Frizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling.] [Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use.]
To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
--Hawthorne.-
To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.
Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.
--Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"curl hair," 1560s, of obscure origin. There are words of similar sound and sense in Old English (fris "curly"), Old Frisian (frisle), Middle French (friser "to curl") but their history is tangled; probably connected somehow to frizz (v.). Related: Frizzled; frizzling. As a noun from 1610s, "a short curl," from the verb. Frizzling iron was a 17c. term for "curling iron."
Wiktionary
n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled. 2 (label en transitive) To scorch.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Frizzle may refer to:
- Frizzle (chicken plumage), a domestic chicken plumage pattern featuring curled feathers
- Frizzle chicken (breed), a specific breed of domestic chicken featuring the frizzle plumage pattern
- Ms. Frizzle, a character in The Magic School Bus
- To fry (food)
A frizzle refers to a plumage pattern in domesticated chickens ( Gallus gallus domesticus) characterized by feathers that curl outwards, rather than lying flat as in most chickens. The frizzle type is not a separate breed, but a variety within breeds. Though all breeds of chickens may be frizzled; it is most commonly seen in breeds such as the Cochin, Pekin, and Polish. Chickens with this pattern are sometimes referred to as frizzles. The gene which causes the frizzles' peculiar feathering is a dominant trait. As a result of its unusual look, frizzles are primarily used as exhibition birds, and are included in most English language poultry standards.
There is a pure breed of chicken with this feature, known as the Frizzle breed.
Usage examples of "frizzle".
Lesec by his side, prouder, more elated, more frizzled and befrilled, than if he had been appointed first-commissioner of finance.
He had already, at the foot of the stair, called out to the stout patronne, a lady who turned to him from the bustling, breezy hall a countenance covered with fresh matutinal powder and a bosom as capacious as the velvet shelf of a chimneypiece, over which her round white face, framed in its golden frizzle, might have figured as a showy clock.
She heated the point of her blade in the smoky flame of the lantern in the gimbal above her head, ran the blade down the seams of the shift in her lap, and the nits popped and frizzled.
Where they found the body to be taken away, and a black Cat very lean and deformed sitting in the coffin, setting of great Ruffs, and frizzling of hair, to the great fear and wonder of all beholders.
I was sitting at the window with my guardian on the following morning, and Ada was busy writing-of course to Richard--when Miss Jellyby was announced, and entered, leading the identical Peepy, whom she had made some endeavours to render presentable by wiping the dirt into corners of his face and hands and making his hair very wet and then violently frizzling it with her fingers.
And then some more childern, and wimmen, and dogs, and parasols, and men, and babies, and Injuns, and Frenchmen, and old young wimmen, and young old ones, and handsome ones, and hombly ones, and parasols, and some sweet young girls ag'in, and some black men, and some white men, and some more wimmen, and parasols, and silk, and velvet, and lace, and puckers, and raffles, and gethers, and gores, and flowers, and feathers, and fringes, and frizzles, and then some men, some Southerners from the South, some Westerners from the West, some Easterners from the East, and some Cubebs from Cuba, and some Chinamen from China.
As it was, he would have had to partake of thirty pair of such dishes as roast capons and partridges, civet of hare, meat and fish aspics, lark pasties and rissoles of beef marrow, black puddings and sausages, lampreys and savory rice, entremet of swan, peacock, bitterns, and heron “borne on high,” pasties of venison and small birds, fresh and salt-water fish with a gravy of shad “the color of peach blossom,” white leeks with plovers, duck with roast chitterlings, stuffed pigs, eels reversed, frizzled beans-finishing off with fruit wafers, pears, comfits, medlars, peeled nuts, and spiced wine.
Frizzled by repeated dyeings and bleachings, her hair stuck up on her head like a yellow fright wig.
He seemed to think some of our enlisted men had laid down conjures on your father's people so they'd believe all the lies about the Queen of England being black and life with the British in Nova Scotia being all roses and ease, so he told me about the value of a frizzled chicken.
Simons Island, milady, without finding out that a frizzled chicken in the yard will invariably dig up any kind of conjure laid down on any person?
And why did you say it might be a good thing if we had a frizzled chicken when we reach Caerlaverock--if we ever do!
And what good would a frizzled chicken do to protect anyone from a ghost?
Exactly how a frizzled chicken might affect her I haven't quite decided.
A wriggling red stream came out of his frizzled hair, puddling on the carpet.
He still wore his loud-checked suit, and there was a bandage stuck in the midst of his upstanding, frizzled hair with adhesive tape.