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Frizzle v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. frizzled; pres. part. frizzling)

To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig.

To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up. "Drain and heat it (shaved smoked beef) in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it."

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Etymology of 'Frizzle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Frizzle" Quotes from Famous Books

... as he pointed out; the green caterpillar certainly appeared to form some part of the underlying picture. The man took out a bottle, and with a brush laid some solution on the painting. "You must wait for it to dry. It will blister and frizzle up the surface, then we can rub off the top gently with a cloth, and you'll see ...

— The Nebuly Coat • John Meade Falkner

... the canal opposite the mill, lived Bull Frizzle, noted for his enormous strength. One time, after there was an accident at the Little Falls (Chain) Bridge, he crawled under a large beam and prized it up by the strength of his back, saving the life of the ...

— A Portrait of Old George Town • Grace Dunlop Ecker

... worthy hunter's hair was singed to such an extent that his entire countenance presented the appearance of a universal frizzle. Fortunately the skin, although much blackened, was quite uninjured—a fact which, when he ascertained it beyond a doubt, afforded so much satisfaction to Henri that he capered about shouting with delight, as if some piece of good fortune had ...

— The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... — Mrs Tabitha scoulded a little when we got home; but she knows as I know what's what Ah Laud help you! — There is Sir Yury Micligut, of Balnaclinch, in the cunty of Kalloway — I took down the name from his gentleman, Mr 0 Frizzle, and he has got an estate of fifteen hundred a year — I am sure he is both rich and generous—But you nose, Molly, I was always famous for keeping secrets; and so he was very safe in trusting me with his flegm for mistress; which, to be sure is ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

Words linked to "Frizzle" : cookery, crape, fry, wave, frizz, crimp, curl, preparation, kink up, cooking, kink