a. [f. FRIZZLE sb.1 + -Y1.] Full of frizzles or crisp curls.

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1707.  J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 370 Frizly black … Hair.

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1782.  Elphinston, trans. Martial, II. xxxvi. 103. Nor with frizzly shock, nor frowsy hair.

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1833.  Longf., Outre-Mer, Prose Wks. 1886, I. 264. The crisping, frizzly waves glide in snaky folds.

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1882.  Day of Rest, 206. The under steward—whose frizzly unkempt head of hair stood out … round his head like a halo.

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