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frizzy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frizzy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frizzy (=tightly curled)
▪ She had dark frizzy hair which might have been permed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
▪ One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.
▪ Serums are another good styling aid, helping to make frizzy hair smooth and more manageable.
▪ He was tanned, fit-looking and fortyish, and had dark frizzy hair which might have been permed.
▪ They're best for naturally dry, curly and frizzy hair but can be used on chemically damaged hair too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her mass of frizzy black hair was a woman's as well.
▪ Mrs Marriot was an old woman with frizzy red hair and no teeth.
▪ One was a junior doctor at a London hospital with pale skin and frizzy hair.
▪ Q I have long, naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy.
▪ Serums are another good styling aid, helping to make frizzy hair smooth and more manageable.
▪ They're best for naturally dry, curly and frizzy hair but can be used on chemically damaged hair too.
▪ This was not chubby Eileen with the blue-veined legs, or black-skinned Blossom with the frizzy wire-wool hair.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frizzy

Frizzly \Friz"zly\, Frizzy \Friz"zy\, a. Curled or crisped; as, frizzly, hair.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frizzy

1842, from frizz (n.); see frizz (v.) + -y (2). Related: Frizzily; frizziness.

Wiktionary
frizzy

a. Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions. n. A small amount of unkempt, curly hair

WordNet
frizzy

  1. adj. in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy]

  2. [also: frizziest, frizzier]

Usage examples of "frizzy".

When they took me from Corunna Downs, she was only a baby, with real white blonde hair, and now, here she was, a grown woman, with black frizzy hair.

The girl, with her frizzy gold hair, at least reminded Finlay of her mother.

She had dark hair nearly to her waist, worn loose, faintly frizzy and dyed the color of oxblood shoes.

The young Joplands shared mirrors with one pair and a trio of clones from other familiesthe first type tall, with frizzy hair, and the other broad of shoulder and hip, with breasts ample enough to feed quadruplets.

Her blond hair was frizzier than ever, especially as she wore no cap to smooth it.

My chauffeuse was a slender deli­cate little flower in a full white leather outfit, right down to the peaked chauffeur's hat pulled firmly down over her mop of frizzy golden hair.

My chauffeuse was a slender delicate little flower in a full white leather outfit, right down to the peaked chauffeur's hat pulled firmly down over her mop of frizzy golden hair.

Then at the back, her fat legs as brick-red as the squashed dahlias she was clutching, her face topped by that frightful frizzy perm and shiny from racing around all day, cringed Kitty.

He had a strange frizzy bush of hair, and he dressed like a twenty-five-year-old chartered accountant on his day off: he was wearing brand-new jeans and a Microsoft T-shirt).

Her hair had terminal frizzies, and Coke-bottle glasses did nothing to improve her profile.

She threw down the comb, squirted a dab of something that was supposed to control the frizzies into her hand, and rubbed it over the worst spots.

Harry the producer, with his forty-nine horror movies and his frizzy hair, looking at the offer.

Jaun (after he had in the first place doffed a hat with a reinforced crown and bowed to all the others in that chorus of praise of goodwill girls on their best beehiviour who all they were girls all rushing sowarmly for the post as buzzy as sie could bie to read his kisshands, kittering all about, rushing and making a tremendous girlsfuss over him pellmale, their jeune premier and his rosyposy smile, mussing his frizzy hair and the golliwog curls of him, all, but that one.

Nina asked, and looked sideways across the room at the lady with the frizzy hair, and the four-inch-high platform shoes, and the short shorts and the midriff blouse.

Oh, she was glad to be back in Havana, holding Fidel's hand as a fussy gringo tried to restore the illusion of vitality—gluing on the frizzy beard, aligning a new toupee, ruddying the cheeks, powdering the shadows around the hollowing eyes.