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Drizzle vs Frizzle - What's the difference?

drizzle | frizzle |

As verbs the difference between drizzle and frizzle

is that drizzle is to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles while frizzle is to fry something until crisp and curled.

As nouns the difference between drizzle and frizzle

is that drizzle is light rain while frizzle is a curl; a lock of hair crisped.

drizzle

English

Verb

(drizzl)
  • (ambitransitive) To rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The air doth drizzle dew.
  • (cooking) To pour slowly and evenly, especially with oil in cooking.
    • The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.
    The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.
  • (slang) To urinate.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Light rain.
  • (physics, weather). Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground. It is sometimes accompanied by low visibility and fog.
    • No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle .
  • (slang) Water.
    • Stop drinking all of my drizzle !

    • Derived terms

    * drizzly

    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.