Crinkle vs Frizz - What's the difference?
crinkle | frizz | Related terms |
(ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
* L. T. Trowbridge
* Elizabeth Browning
A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
(lb) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
(lb) To curl; to make frizzy.
* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
* 1937 , (John Betjeman),
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To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
Crinkle is a related term of frizz.
As verbs the difference between crinkle and frizz
is that crinkle is (ambitransitive) to fold, crease, crumple, or wad while frizz is (lb) of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.As nouns the difference between crinkle and frizz
is that crinkle is a wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness while frizz is a mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.crinkle
English
Verb
(crinkl)- He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
- The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
- The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
- All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
Noun
(en noun)- He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.
Anagrams
*frizz
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) frysen, from (etyl) friser, .Verb
- with her hair frizzed short up to her ears
- In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed , waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.