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.

Etymology: F friser, perh. f. the stem of frire FRY(1)