frizz

  • 51Dog Days Are Over — Single by Florence + the Machine from the album Lungs B side …

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  • 52fry — ‘cook in fat’ [13] and fry ‘young fish’ [14] are quite distinct words. The former comes via Old French frire from Latin frīgere, a cooking term which covered what we would now distinguish as ‘roasting’ and ‘frying’. It goes back ultimately to… …

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  • 53frizzle — (v.) curl hair, 1560s, perhaps related to O.E. fris curly and O.Fris. frisle. Or else from M.Fr. friser to curl (see FRIZZ (Cf. frizz) (v.)). Related: Frizzled; frizzling. As a noun from 1610s, crisp curl, from the verb …

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  • 54frizzy — 1870, from FRIZZ (Cf. frizz) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Related: Frizziness …

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  • 55curl — [n] loop, ringlet, curve coil, crimp, crispation, curlicue, flourish, frizz, kink, quirk, spiral, swirl, twist, wave, whorl; concepts 418,436 Ant. line curl [v] bend, loop buckle, coil, contort, convolute, corkscrew, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crook …

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  • 56frizzle — Ⅰ. frizzle [1] ► VERB ▪ fry until crisp or burnt. ORIGIN from FRY(Cf. ↑fry), probably influenced by SIZZLE(Cf. ↑sizzler). Ⅱ. frizzle [2] …

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  • 57fry — ‘cook in fat’ [13] and fry ‘young fish’ [14] are quite distinct words. The former comes via Old French frire from Latin frīgere, a cooking term which covered what we would now distinguish as ‘roasting’ and ‘frying’. It goes back ultimately to… …

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  • 58frizzle — 1. v.intr. & tr. 1 fry, toast, or grill, with a sputtering noise. 2 (often foll. by up) burn or shrivel. Etymology: frizz (in the same sense) f. FRY(1), with imit. ending + LE(4) 2. v. & n. v. 1 tr. form (hair) into tight curls. 2 intr. (often… …

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  • 59Friz — Friz, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Frizzed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Frizzing}.] [Cf. F. friser to curl, crisp, frizzle, to raise the nap (on certain stuffs); prob.akin to OFries. frisle hair of the head. Cf. {Frieze} kind of cloth.] [Written also {frizz}.] 1.… …

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  • 60Friz — Friz, n.; pl. {Frizzes}. That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. [Written also {frizz}.] [1913 Webster] He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar …

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