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English
Etymology
From frizzle + -ed.
Adjective
frizzled (comparative more frizzled, superlative most frizzled)
- Of feathers, hair, etc.: crisped or curled; crinkled, frizzed; also, of a person's head, etc.: covered with curled hair, or something similar to that.
a. 1733 (date written), John Gay, “ The Toilet. A Town Eclogue.”, in Thomas Park, editor, The Poetical Works of John Gay. , volume III, London: t the Stanhope Press, by C Whittingham; for John Sharpe, , published 1812, →OCLC, page 63:Who there frequents at these unmodish hours, / But ancient matrons with their frizzled towers, / And grey religious maids?
Verb
frizzled
- simple past and past participle of frizzle