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frizzly en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English frizzle Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English frizzly From frizzle + -y.

Meanings

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 frizzly hair of the Papuans preponderates. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 456:

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