Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the hair curled or crisped into a mass of frizzes or frizzles.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of frizz.

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Examples

  • The simplest kind of scratch brush consists merely of a bundle of wires bound up tightly by another wire, and somewhat "frizzed" out at the ends (Fig. 90).

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

  • Practicing simple yoga poses and breathing techniques can assure that you'll have at least a few minutes to sort through the depths of your frizzed out mind while you're on the move.

    Her Campus: 5 Yoga Poses to Relieve College Stress Her Campus 2011

  • Black was literally all you could look at -- the models wore minimal makeup, with hair left mostly unfussed: slightly crimped, frizzed out, and falling limply on their shoulders.

    Gazelle Emami: Christian Siriano Fall 2011 (PHOTOS): Some Like It Dark Gazelle Emami 2011

  • Black was literally all you could look at -- the models wore minimal makeup, with hair left mostly unfussed: slightly crimped, frizzed out, and falling limply on their shoulders.

    Gazelle Emami: Christian Siriano Fall 2011 (PHOTOS): Some Like It Dark Gazelle Emami 2011

  • And hair a frizzed hennaed horror beneath a stained mobcap, her striped yellow and red gown stretched to breaking beneath a pink apron.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • And hair a frizzed hennaed horror beneath a stained mobcap, her striped yellow and red gown stretched to breaking beneath a pink apron.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Practicing simple yoga poses and breathing techniques can assure that you'll have at least a few minutes to sort through the depths of your frizzed out mind while you're on the move.

    Her Campus: 5 Yoga Poses to Relieve College Stress Her Campus 2011

  • And hair a frizzed hennaed horror beneath a stained mobcap, her striped yellow and red gown stretched to breaking beneath a pink apron.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • As my "whimsical locks" frizzed up in the Virginia heat, the baby crawled between donors 'legs, bumping into the host's priceless ultra-mod sculptures and stuck her finger in a Lalique-ensconced electrical socket.

    Natalia Brzezinski: Building Our Daughters' Self Esteem, By Starting With Our Own 2010

  • The guy -- who happens to house a bird's nest and, possibly, a few other zoo animals in the crown of his frizzed-out hairdo -- pretty much stole the movie.

    Your take on Russell Brand 2010

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  •     Gently I rested his frizzed

        head in my arm like a girl's.

    - Peter Reading, Going On, 1985

    June 19, 2009