Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tightly curled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Loosely-crisp; curly: as, “light, frizzly hair,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Curled or crisped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having small, tight
curls
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of hair) in small tight curls
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Examples
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Billy Green, at the moment, was training a tiny, nondescript, frizzly-haired dog.
CHAPTER XXVIII 2010
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Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009
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A lady came in to the library today sporting a goodly crop of frizzly chin hairs of, I kid you not, nearly two inches in length.
Random Thoughts on Hair kittenpie 2006
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A lady came in to the library today sporting a goodly crop of frizzly chin hairs of, I kid you not, nearly two inches in length.
Archive 2006-03-01 kittenpie 2006
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Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam.
The Nature of Jade Deb Caletti 2007
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The natives of Aru, on the other hand, are, Papuans, with black or sooty brown skims, woolly or frizzly hair, thick-ridged prominent noses, and rather slender limbs.
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They delight in combing, or rather forking it, using for that purpose a large wooden fork with four diverging prongs, which answers the purpose of separating and arranging the long tangled, frizzly mass of cranial vegetation much better than any comb could do.
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