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Added 8 October 2026

frizz

/fɹɪz/ verb

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Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
To curl; to make frizzy.
To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

noun

A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

Origin

From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”).

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