FRIZZ

v. & n.

v.tr. 1 form (hair) into a mass of small curls. 2 dress (wash-leather etc.) with pumice or a scraping-knife.

n. 1 a frizzed hair. b a row of curls. 2 a frizzed state.

[ F friser, perh. f. the stem of frire FRY(1) ]