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frizzly

frizzly adjective: having small, tight curls; frizzy.

Adjective

frizzly (comparative frizzlier, superlative frizzliest)

  1. Having small, tight curls; frizzy.
    • The natives of Banda are very much mixed, and it is probable that at least three-fourths of the population are mongrels, in various degrees of Malay, Papuan, Arab, Portuguese, and Dutch. The first two form the bases of the larger portion, and the dark skins, pronounced features, and more or less...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 456

Forms of frizzly

comparativefrizzlier
superlativefrizzliest

Origin of frizzly

From frizzle + -y.

Questions about frizzly

What does frizzly mean?
Frizzly means having small, tight curls; frizzy.
What part of speech is frizzly?
Frizzly is an adjective.

Words near frizzly in the dictionary

  1. frizzles
  2. frizzlier
  3. frizzliest
  4. frizzliness
  5. frizzling
  6. frizzly
  7. frizzy
  8. FRJ
  9. frl
  10. Frl.
  11. FRLG

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