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▪ I. frizzy, n. colloq.
Brit. |ˈfrɪzi|, U.S. |ˈfrɪzi|
[‹ frizzy adj.]
In pl. Usu. with the. Hair which has become an unmanageable mass of small, tight curls, esp. through excessive dryness; frizzy hair. Also: the condition of having such hair.
1980N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 June vi. 6/3 The worst thing you can call a television announcer is a rip and reader, and you may get the terminal frizzies if you are caught referring to a coiffeuse as a hair bender. 1991Hair Flair Jan. 56/2 Dry hair: what to do if you've got the frizzies. 1995Homemaker's Mag. (Toronto) Summer 38/1 Use one of the new spray-on shine enhancers, such as Freeman Botanical Shine Serum, to add gleam and tame frizzies. 2001Sugar 6 Feb. 79/3 The frizzies can be tough to tame, but if you're a natural curly head, then anything which adds weight to the hair will help.
▪ II. frizzy, a.|ˈfrɪzɪ|
[f. frizz n. + -y1.]
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a frizz.
1870G. W. Dasent Annals (ed. 4) I. 339 A thing with frizzy hair all down her neck. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. 217 Mr. Lush's..strong black grey-besprinkled hair of frizzy thickness. 1881Tylor Anthropol. 72 The Africans show the woolly or frizzy kind [of hair]. |