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Frizzling

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.

Frizzling

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).

Wiktionary
frizzling

vb. (present participle of frizzle English)

Usage examples of "frizzling".

Tried to weld the ruptured place over the electric stove, with desperate results, and the odour of frizzling dentifrice spread nauseatingly through the house.

But frizzling a man in a chair until he looks like a piece of toast and the fillings in his teeth hum like tiny radios is just modern gadget-worship gone wild.

He used to wake up in the night and hear the frizzling of fried fish and the singing of kettles.

I kept looking until it suddenly went out - blew out like a candle - with funny, frizzling noises.