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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

... lubbers, why didn't you come sooner to help me, instead of leaving me to frizzle here? I might have burned to death a dozen times ...

— In the King's Name - The Cruise of the "Kestrel" • George Manville Fenn

... time. Figgered young Keith might git back some time. Plimsoll's clearin' out of the country an' I'm trailin' him clean through hell if I have to. Ef he's harmed Molly I'll stake him out with a green hide wrapped round him an' his eyelids sliced off. I'll sit in the shade an' watch him frizzle an' yell when the hide shrinks in the sun. This is my private play, Mormon. You an' Sam can back it up, but I'm handlin' the cards. I'll leave sign plain fo' you to foller from Willer Crick. They must have crossed at the ford ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... a holiday of course. Stephanotie had put her hair into Hinde's curlers the night before, and, in consequence, it was a perfect mass of frizzle and fluff the next morning. Miss Truefitt, who wore her own neat gray locks plainly banded round her head, gave a shudder when she first ...

— Light O' The Morning • L. T. Meade

... person. He was proud of his high family, for his father was second cousin to Dick Whittington's Cat, and had seen a great deal of the world. Sir Claude was very proud of his whiskers, and before he went to the tea party, he called on Frizzle Frog, the barber, to be shaved. While he sat there, with the towel under his chin, who should look in, but his friend Captain Black, a very fierce looking fellow, who had killed hundreds of rats, and was always ready ...

— A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales • Unknown

... he deddy took 'way an' sold down Souf de same time my ole marster whar dead buy him; dat's what I al'ays heah 'em say, an' I know he's dead long befo' dis, 'cause I heah 'em say dese Virginia niggers earn stan' hit long deah, hit so hot, hit frizzle 'em up, an' I reckon he die befo' he ole marster, whar I heah say die of a broked heart torectly after dee teck he niggers an' sell 'em befo' he face. I heah Aunt Dinah say dat, an' dat he might'ly sot on he ole servants, spressaly on Ephum deddy, ...

— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various

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