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Frizz vs Friz - What's the difference?

frizz | friz |

As verbs the difference between frizz and friz

is that frizz is of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls while friz is dated form of frizz.

As nouns the difference between frizz and friz

is that frizz is a mass of tightly curled or unruly hair while friz is dated form of frizz.

frizz

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) frysen, from (etyl) friser, .

Verb

  • (lb) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
  • (lb) To curl; to make frizzy.
  • * (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
    • with her hair frizzed short up to her ears
  • * 1937 , (John Betjeman),
    • 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;.
  • 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.
    • Related terms
    * friseur * frizzle

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fryse, from the verb. See above.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

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    friz

    English

    Noun

    (frizzes)
  • * Hare
    • He [Dr. Johnson], who saw in his glass how his wig became his face and head, might easily infer that a similar full-bottomed, well-curled friz of words would be no less becoming to his thoughts.

    Verb

  • * 1870 , Elizabeth Barker Comins, Marion Berkley
    • "To friz , or not to friz! that is the question!" exclaimed Marion, as she turned from her looking-glass and appealed to Florence, who was buttoning her best-fitting cloth boots.