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Frizzled

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.

Frizzled

Frizzle \Friz"zle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Frizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Frizzling.] [Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use.]

  1. To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
    --Hawthorne.

  2. 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).

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frizzled

vb. (en-past of: frizzle)

Wikipedia
Frizzled

Frizzled is a family of G protein-coupled receptor proteins that serves as receptors in the Wnt signaling pathway and other signaling pathways. When activated, Frizzled leads to activation of Dishevelled in the cytosol.

Usage examples of "frizzled".

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.

Sultman crossed the deep carpet, a grotesque figure with his frizzled hair, and opened a wall panel.

The bandage had been torn out of Sultman's frizzled hair and the bullet wound was flowing red.

A strange thing had happened to his frizzled hair as death overtook him.

She sat before a cheval glass in the shadowy loft, working a hairbrush through her mass of frizzled curls.

A modest white cap perched atop her frizzled curls, covering all but the most rebellious of them.

Magda said they had had a weird, almost spooky sixth sense that the Grand Marnier soufflé and frizzled lardon thing were not going to work out.

Ivorine horns rose like half crescents poking through the frizzled bands of hair drawn back past her ears.

Patches of reeds, tall, their frizzled tops reaching halfway up the mast.