frizz
1frizz — [frız] v [I and T] informal [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: friser, probably from frire to cook in hot oil ] if your hair frizzes, or if you frizz it, it curls very tightly >frizz n [U] ▪ how to give your hair more shape and less frizz …
2frizz — frizz·i·ly; frizz·i·ness; frizz; frizz·er; …
3Frizz — Frizz, v. t. & n. See {Friz}, v. t. & n. [1913 Webster] …
4Frizz — Frizz, v. t. & i. [Partly imitative, but cf. {Fry}.] To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
5frizz — [ frız ] noun uncount hair that has very small tight stiff curls a. the condition of hair that has very small tight stiff curls …
6frizz — (v.) also friz, 1610s (implied in frizzed), probably from Fr. friser to curl, dress the hair (16c.), perhaps from stem of frire to fry, cook. Assimilated to native frizzle. Related: Frizzed; frizzing. As a noun from 1660s, frizzed hair …
7frizz — ► VERB ▪ (of hair) form into a mass of tight curls. ► NOUN ▪ a mass of tightly curled hair. ORIGIN French friser …
8frizz — frizz1 or friz [friz] vt., vi. frizzed, frizzing [Fr friser, to curl: see FRIEZE1] to form into small, tight curls n. hair, etc. that is frizzed frizz2 [friz] vt., vi. [echoic alteration of FRY …
9frizz — [[t]frɪ̱z[/t]] N UNCOUNT Frizz is frizzy hair. Manic brushing will only cause frizz …
10frizz — Friz 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… …
