frizzle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
    — 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.
  2. A frizzle fowl
动词 v.
  1. To fry something until crisp and curled. transitive
    — Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.
  2. To scorch. transitive
    — 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. […]”
  3. To fry noisily, sizzle. intransitive
    — The bacon frizzled in the pan.
  4. To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle. ambitransitive
    — Now am I prowder of this pouertie, which I know is mine owne, than a wayting gentlewoman is, of a frizled groateſworth of haire, that neuer grewe on her head: […]

词形变化

frizzles present,singular,third-person frizzling participle,present frizzled participle,past frizzled past frizle alternative frisle alternative frizel alternative frizil alternative frizzles plural frizle alternative frisle alternative frizel alternative frizil alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
frizzler frizzly

词源

词源 1
From frizz + -le. Cognate with West Frisian frisselje (“to plait, braid”), Old Frisian frisle, fresle (“head of the hair, lock of hair”). More at frizz.
词源 2
From frizz + -le. Cognate with West Frisian frisselje (“to plait, braid”), Old Frisian frisle, fresle (“head of the hair, lock of hair”). More at frizz.
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