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to frizz

to frizz

2 6.3
To make hair form a lot of small, tight curls
  • verb
  • /frɪz/
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  • If you don't use a good conditioner, your hair may frizz in wet weather.
  • frizzed hair
  • frizz from humidity
  • frizz when curly

You know, I'm not perfect, so once I wet my hair and my edges, they're going to frizz up and turn it to like one tight curl.

Examples

  • Before her stood a plumpish woman of just her own height and age, with an unruly mass of red-gold hair frizzing out of her head, and a broad, big-toothed grin on her freckled face.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Gort touches her hair, frizzed up from the fog like Easter basket grass.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Does your hair still frizz up when you run through the sprinkler?

    Minutemen (2008)

  • The last thing I want is for this hair of mine to frizz up in the humidity.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • I had my hair frizzing in the rain.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I dry it, and it doesn't frizz.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • My hair will frizz.

    Private Benjamin (1980)

  • The day was warm and humid, and her hair had frizzed into a cloud resembling dark autumn leaves around her face.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • You know, I'm not perfect, so once I wet my hair and my edges, they're going to frizz up and turn it to like one tight curl.

    Harper's BAZAAR

  • Freshly clean, her golden hair frizzed out, accenting the hollows in her cheeks and the slight puffiness under her eyes.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

to curl hair
vsto frizz
2 2.8

Make someone's hair form small round loops with hot tools or rollers

refers to very small, tight spiral shapes rather than styled loops
to crimp
vsto frizz
2 6.7

To make hair into small tight waves using a tool

is about small tight curls regardless of how they form
to frizzle
vsto frizz
1 7.9

Make hair or material curl and look messy

means specifically forming small tight curls, not general frizziness
to crape
vsto frizz
  • Archaic
9.9

To make hair or fabric form tight waves

focuses on tiny tight curls rather than larger ridges
to kink up
vsto frizz
  • Informal
7.4

To curl tightly into small bends, as with hair or a rope

describes uniformly small spiral curls rather than irregular twists

Antonyms

smooth
256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

to straighten
114 2.5

Make something straight and in the right position

How Curly

to frizz
2 6.3
to wave
40 5.1

Surface Forms

frizz infinitive
frizzed past
frizzed past participle
frizzing present participle
frizzes third person singular

Etymology

Frizz as a verb also comes from French friser, meaning 'to curl', and is related to English frizzle. So, to frizz hair is to make it form those small, tight curls or for hair to become tightly curled and frizzy.