frizzle

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: friz=zle

CIDE DICTIONARY

frizzle, v. t. [Dim. of friz.].

 To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.  Gay.  [1913 Webster]

To frizzle up, to crinkle or crisp excessively.

frizzle, v. t. & i. [Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use.].

•  To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.  Hawthorne.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.

  "Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

frizzle, n. 

 A curl; a lock of hair crisped.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frizzle, v.intr. & tr.
1 fry, toast, or grill, with a sputtering noise.
2 (often foll. by up) burn or shrivel.

frizzle, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. form (hair) into tight curls.
2 intr. (often foll. by up) (of hair etc.) curl tightly.
--n. frizzled hair.

Etymology

16th c.: orig. unkn. (earlier than FRIZZ)

THESAURUS

frizzle

bake, barbecue, baste, blanch, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, coddle, cook, crimp, curl, curry, devil, do, do to perfection, fire, fricassee, frizz, fry, griddle, grill, heat, lock, oven-bake, pan, pan-broil, parboil, poach, ponytail, prepare, prepare food, ringlet, roast, saute, scallop, sear, shirr, simmer, steam, stew, stir-fry, toast

ROGET THESAURUS

frizzle

Curvature

VB be curved curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag, deviate, curl, turn, reenter, render curved, flex, bend, curve, incurvate, inflect, deflect, scatter, refract (light), crook, turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate, bow, curl, recurve, frizzle, rotundity, convexity.

Convolution

VB be convoluted, wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl, wave, undulate, meander, inosculate, entwine, intwine, twist, coil, roll, wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill, frizzle, crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort, contort, wreathe.

Fold

VB fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.