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Frizzly vs Frizzle - What's the difference?

frizzly | frizzle |

As an adjective frizzly

is having small, tight curls.

As a verb frizzle is

(label) to fry something until crisp and curled.

As a noun frizzle is

a curl; a lock of hair crisped.

frizzly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having small, tight curls

    • 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.