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▪ I. frizz, friz, n.|frɪz| Also 7 frizze. [f. next vb.] The state of being frizzed or curled; concr. frizzed hair; a row or wig of crisp curls.
1668G. Etherege She would if she could iii. iii, Draw a Comb through him, there is not such Another Frizz in Europe. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2075/4 Her hair brown of a natural Frizze or Curl about the forehead. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 189 A little Friz, like a Tower, running round the Edges of the Face. 1802Syd. Smith in Edin. Rev. I. 18 Dr. Parr's wig..swells out into boundless convexity of frizz. 1827T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 277 His golden locks were spread out in the utmost amplitude of friz. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 517 Clustering glossy curls, which were sometimes made soft and semi-transparent by a peculiar friz. fig.1848Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1867) 478 A similar full-bottomed well-curled friz of words. b. attrib.
1646in Thornbury Haunted London (1865) 383 Gave to old Friz-wig..0. 6. 0. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 40. 260 A Head..with a friz Wig and plenteous Cravat-string. ▪ II. frizz, friz, v.1|frɪz| Also 7 freeze, 7–8 frize, 8 frieze. [c gray][ad. Fr. friser, = Sp. frisar, to curl (hair), raise a nap on (cloth); in the latter of these senses the Fr. vb. was adopted earlier; see frieze v.1 The Eng. word seems to have been originally pronounced (friːz[/c]), but to have afterwards undergone assimilation to the older frizzle v. The origin of the Rom. vb. is disputed. There seems to be no good ground for the common view that it is of Teut. etymology (the interpretation of the ethnic name of the Frisians as ‘curly-haired’ being a mere assumption); quite possibly it may be a mere special use of the homophonous F. friser frieze v.1] 1. trans. To curl or crisp (the hair); to form into a mass of small, crisp curls.
1660Pepys Diary 22 Nov., Dressing of herself with her haire frized short up to her eares. 1750F. Coventry Hist. Pompey ii. iii. (1785) 53/2 People who frize their hair in the newest fashion. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1895) 378 This machine [a tye-periwig] has been in buckle ever since, and now all the servants in the family were employed to frizz it out for the ceremony. 1777W. Whitehead Goat's Beard 32 Is't not enough you read Voltaire, While sneering valets frizz your hair? 1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. South-Sea Ho., He wore his hair..powdered and frizzed out. 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 41 Grayish hair, frizzed, in short crépé curls. 2. intr. Of hair: To stand up in short crisp curls. Also trans. To set up (hair) on end; to erect.
1696[see frizzing ppl. a.]. 1791W. Bartram Carolina 501 [The hair] at the crown of the head..is about two inches broad..and stands frized upright. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 246 The lion roaring and frizzing his shaggy crest. 3. trans. To raise a bur on (the nap of cloth). = frieze v.1
1806Webster Compend. Dict., Friz, to form nap into small burs. 4. In Leather-dressing: To rub (wash-leather, etc.) with pumice-stone or a blunt knife, so as to remove the grain, soften the surface, and give a uniform thickness.
1697[see frizzed ppl. a.]. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3) s.v. Wet-glover, Frizing is the working the Skin woolly on one side. 1853C. Morfit Arts of Tanning 434 The skins, after having been brought to a state of pelt..are subjected to what is technically termed frizing, which is a rubbing with a pumice stone, or working under the round edge of a blunt knife. 1885C. T. Davis Leather xlii. 681 The treatment with the scraping-knife being generally not sufficient for complete frizzing, the remaining portions of the grain are removed with another sharp knife. Hence frizzed ppl. a., ˈfrizzing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 117 Freez'd Minions all, most brave in vaunts and vowes. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2459/4 Black short frized Hair. 1696W. Mountague Delights Holland 52 Fellows, with black frizzing Hair and great Whiskers. 1697View Penal Laws 60 To use dry, curried and frized Leather. c1770Erskine Barber in Poet. Reg. (1810) 327 Ruin seize thee, scoundrel Coe! Confusion on thy frizzing wait. 1787Generous Attachm. I. 28 His hair wears the flourishes of the most skilful of the frizzing tribe. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1845) 309 The barber would thrust out his frizzed head, with a comb sticking in it. 1856R. W. Procter Barber's Shop xxi. (1883) 204 He..walked about London in his well-combed wig, frizzed and three tailed. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 917 Frizzing-machine, a machine on which the nap of woolen cloth is formed into a number of little prominences or tufts. ▪ III. frizz, v.2|frɪz| [f. fry v. with echoic termination.] a. intr. To make a sputtering noise in frying. b. trans. (See quot. 1891.)
1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. ix, What's that frizzing in your frying-pan? 1891Hartland Gloss., Frizz or Frizzle, to scorch or dry up. |