Frizzes vs Frizzen - What's the difference?
frizzes | frizzen |
(frizz)
(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.
An L-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms, positioned over the flash pan so to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the barrel, such that when fired the flint scraps it so as to create a spark.
As a verb frizzes
is (frizz).As a noun frizzen is
an l-shaped piece of steel hinged at the rear used in flintlock firearms, positioned over the flash pan so to enclose a small priming charge of black powder next to the flash hole that is drilled through the barrel, such that when fired the flint scraps it so as to create a spark.frizzes
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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;.
