frizzling

Verb

frizzle (third-person singular simple present frizzles, present participle frizzling, simple past and past participle frizzled)

1. (transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled.
   • Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it.1884, Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking
2. (transitive) To scorch.
   • It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
3. (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.
   • The bacon frizzled in the pan.
4. (ambitransitive) To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
   • Now am I prowder of this pouertie, which I know is mine owne, than a wayting gentlewoman is, of a frizled groateſworth of haire, that neuer grewe on her head: […]1599 November–December (date written; published 1600), Thomas Dekker, “The Pleasant Comoedie of Old Fortunatus. […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume I, London: John Pearson […]...

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