a. [f. FRIZZ sb. + -Y1.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling a frizz.
1870. Dasent, Annals Eventful Life (ed. 4), I. xxiv. 339. A woman—a thing with frizzy hair all down her neck.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. 217. Mr. Lush’s prominent eyes, fat though not clumsy figure, and strong black grey-besprinkled hair of frizzy thickness.
1881. Tylor, Anthropol., iii. 72. The Africans … show the woolly or frizzy kind, where the hair naturally curls into little corkscrew-spirals.
