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Friz  n.  (pl. frizzes)  (Written also frizz)  That which is frizzed; anything crisped or curled, as a wig; a frizzle. "He (Dr. Johnson), who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar fullbottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Friz" Quotes from Famous Books



... room Where they sot!— Fight 'twixt Mike an' Dock McGriff— 'Pears to me jes' like as if I'd a dremp' the whole blame thing— Allus ha'nts me roun' the gizzard When they're nightmares on the wing, An' a feller's blood's jes' friz! Seed the row from a to izzard— 'Cause I wuz a-standin' as clost to 'em ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley

... he, I'm sure, with such a fine family of his own! Don't look at me in that way, young man; I won't take it—that I won't! I declare my blood friz to see you!" ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... bright still, and it had not thinned. Over her brows it parted richly, with no fuzz or crimp; but a sweet natural wreathing look that made her face young. Mrs. Ledwith had done hers over slate-pencils till she had burned it off; and now tied on a friz, that came low down, for fashion's sake, and left visible only a little bunch of puckers between her eyebrows and the crowsfeet at the corners. The back of her head was weighted down by an immense excrescence in a bag. Behind her ears were bare places. Mrs. Ledwith began to look old-young. ...
— Real Folks • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney



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