# frizz
## English
### Alternative forms

* friz (dated)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɹɪz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪz

### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Verb

frizz (third-person singular simple present frizzes, present participle frizzing, simple past and past participle frizzed)
* (intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
* (transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.
** 1660 December 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 22nd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:with her hair frized short up to her ears
** 1937, John Betjeman, Slough:In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.
** 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […]
* To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
* To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
* To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.

##### Derived terms

* antifrizz
* defrizz
* frizz up
* frizzy
* unfrizz

##### Related terms

* friseur
* frizzle

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above.

#### Noun

frizz (countable and uncountable, plural frizzes)
* A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

##### Translations
### Further reading

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frizz”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “frizz”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English frizz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈfɾiθ/ [ˈfɾiθ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈfɾis/ [ˈfɾis]
* Rhymes: -iθ
* Rhymes: -is
* Syllabification: frizz

### Noun

frizz m (uncountable)
* frizz (of hair)
** 2017 November 25, Nural Cokcetin and Shona Blain, “La miel de manuka y sus beneficios: qué es, sus mitos y verdades”, in CNN‎:La miel de manuka, aparentemente, también puede aumentar la energía, "desintoxicar" el organismo, reducir el colesterol, evitar la diabetes, mejorar el sueño, tonificar la piel, reducir la pérdida del cabello e incluso prevenir el "frizz" y las puntas abiertas de los cabellos.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.