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Frizzle v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. frizzled; pres. part. frizzling)

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

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."

Frizzle v. t. (past & past part. frizzled; pres. part. frizzling) To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.

To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.

noun

Frizzle n. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.

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Etymology of 'Frizzle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frizzle" Quotes from Famous Books

... know I don' never allow you chillun ramblin round dat pump tub no time. Ain' nobody want to drink out no tub you wash your snotty nose in. Fetch yourself in dere to de fire en dry yourself fore you is catch a death of cold. Gwine on, boy. Don' stand dere en watch me like a frizzle chicken. Dere Mr. John Fortune comin now. I gwine tell him to catch ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various

... neolithic night, All knew the Glugs quite well by sight. And they tell of a perfectly easy way: For yesterday's Glug is the Glug of to-day. And they climb the trees when the thunder rolls, To solemnly salve their shop-worn souls. For they fear the coals That threaten to frizzle their ...

— The Glugs of Gosh • C. J. Dennis

... forward with sleep upon his saddle, and now I could no longer see the frizzle of wet upon his beard—for he had a very brave one, of a bright red colour, and trimmed into a whale-oil knot, because he was newly married—although that comb of hair had been a subject of some wonder to me, whether I, in God's ...

— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... stuck doggedly to their task, at times despairing, and looking forward for some special manifestation, some outburst of Pentecostal fire that would bring a glorious harvest of souls. But cannibal Fiji had remained obdurate. The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing ...

— South Sea Tales • Jack London

... excited, but one of the worst fits of restlessness under Lord Erymanth's harangues had come upon Harold. He only sat it out by pulling so many hairs out of his beard that they made an audible frizzle in the fire when he brushed them off his knee, and stood up, saying gruffly, "You are very good; he deserves it. But I must get Lucy home in good time. May I go and speak to your coachman? Tracy gave me a ...

— My Young Alcides - A Faded Photograph • Charlotte M. Yonge

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