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单词 frizzy
释义
frizzy
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adj

Frizzy things are curled tightly. Your dog's frizzy fur might be especially hard to brush.
You'll most often find the adjective frizzy describing hair. Frizzy hair has with small, tight curls that tend to get kinky or fuzzy. People with straight hair are sometimes envious of their friends with frizzy hair, but the opposite is also true. Frizzy was coined in the 1840s, from the older word frizz, which probably comes from the French friser, "to curl or dress the hair."
WORD FAMILY
frizzy: frizzier, frizzily+/frizz: frizzed, frizzes, frizzing, frizzy
USAGE EXAMPLES
The artist’s frizzy gray hair and bushy mustache give him a Mark Twain air.
New York Times(Nov 15, 2016)
She herself is gawky, her frizzy hair pulled back in a serviceable puff above a narrow, long-nosed face.
The New Yorker(Nov 06, 2016)
On those nights when there was electrical power, they hoisted Naghma, a short, flat-chested girl with black frizzy hair, up to the ceiling.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007)
adj (of hair) in small tight curls
Syn
crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy
curly
(of hair) having curls or waves
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