frizzle 1 of 2

as in curl
a length of hair that forms a loop or series of loops the girl has enough frizzles to play Little Orphan Annie

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frizzle

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verb

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Recent Examples of frizzle
Noun
From Julia Child-style French omelets and frizzled eggs to poached and hard-boiled, there are dozens of ways to create your own personal perfect egg recipe (or potentially be at risk for these common egg mistakes). Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2024
Verb
To house their largest animals, like giraffes, rhinos and elephants, to their smallest like frizzle chickens and Asian small-clawed otters, the park was built to serve their 300 species and 5,000-plus animals in honor of Walt Disney’s original philosophy of conservation. Katey Clifford, al, 25 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frizzle
Noun
  • Many are created in order to address a concern (dandruff, breakage, brittleness) or to work most effectively for a specific hair type (4C curls, wavy hair, gray hair).
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 30 June 2025
  • These can range from bodyweight exercises like squats to traditional lifts like curls and rows.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • In some parts of the U.S., scorching temperatures send people indoors to the comfort of air conditioning, which makes the virus easier to spread.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • With scorching temperatures becoming more common across the country (the Old Farmers' Almanac deemed this the hottest and driest summer for the third year in a row), staying cool at home is top of mind for everyone.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
Verb
  • His brother, Erick Garcia, 20, said his mom and aunt had gone to cook more tamales in hopes of selling more throughout the day. Exhausted, Chris sat on a fold-out chair for a moment, letting out a sigh of relief and massaging his eyebrows with his fingers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2025
  • Wyoming’s wildlife agency, for example, traps and relocates conflict bears (or kills problem bears if allowed by the Fish and Wildlife Service), knocks on doors to calm nervous landowners, hands out bear spray, and reminds campers not to cook chili in their tents.
    Christine Peterson, Wired News, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • This message is baked into startup culture, tech media, and investor preferences.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Add baking soda: Keep a small open container of baking soda in your fridge to help absorb odors and create less favorable conditions for mold.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • As the ban came into effect on a broiling hot Sunday, adults and children splashed away in a lake in the Burgundy village of Pont-et-Massène.
    Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • Put the peppers on the center rack of an oven set to broil.
    Randy Graham, Oc Register, 3 June 2025
Verb
  • His striking work, Protest, depicts the bloodshed of Sri Lanka’s long civil war, using books that are charred or rendered illegible, often decorated with symbolic or figurative objects, like toy-soldier figurines marching across a soiled page.
    Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
  • When a fire charred Gabrielle Ross' face, hand and arm, doctors in Middle Tennessee treated her wounds using something with special healing powers − the placenta donated by a mother after the baby's delivery.
    Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days.
    Santina Contreras, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Other ways to reuse the tree include: Burning the wood to ash your garden. Making firewood.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The 1969 Stonewall Riots, sparked by a police raid of the gay bar, ignited the ongoing nationwide LGBTQ movement.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 30 June 2025
  • Even sparks or embers carried by the wind can ignite nearby leaves or grass, triggering a fire that spreads rapidly.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2025

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“Frizzle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frizzle. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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