frizzle

from The Century Dictionary.

• To curl or crisp, as hair; frizz.
• To curl or Crisp in cooking: as, frizzled beef (dried or jerked beef sliced thin and crisped over the fire).
• To curl; crisp.
• noun A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
• noun A ribbed steel plate forming part of a gunlock, to receive the blow of the hammer. It occurs in the form of flint-lock which took the place of the wheel-lock.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
• transitive verb to crinkle or crisp excessively.
• noun A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
• verb To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.
• verb To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive to fry something until crisp and curled
• verb transitive to scorch
• verb intransitive to fry noisily
• noun A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
• noun A ribbed steel plate forming part of a gunlock, which receives the blow of the hammer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb fry something until it curls and becomes crisp
• verb curl tightly