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Crinkle vs Frizzle - What's the difference?

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Crinkle is a related term of frizzle.


As verbs the difference between crinkle and frizzle

is that crinkle is (ambitransitive) to fold, crease, crumple, or wad while frizzle is (label) to fry something until crisp and curled.

As nouns the difference between crinkle and frizzle

is that crinkle is a wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness while frizzle is a curl; a lock of hair crisped.

crinkle

English

Verb

(crinkl)
  • (ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
  • He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
    The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
  • To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  • * L. T. Trowbridge
  • The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
  • All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
  • He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.

    Anagrams

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    frizzle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (label) To fry something until crisp and curled.
  • (label) To scorch.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}
  • (label) To fry noisily.
  • To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
  • (Gay)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
  • * 1911 , (Jack London), The Whale Tooth
  • *:The frizzle -headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.