Obs. exc. dial. [Cf. prec.] trans. To spread out (hair) in a frizzy mass; to ruffle, rumple. (Cf. FURZE v.) Hence Fruzzed ppl. a.
1705. Rowe, Biter, I. i. She has as much … black Hair fruz’d out as any Toast of ’em all.
1713. Lond. Gaz., No. 5171/4. Short fruz’d brown Hair.
1873. Yorksh. Mag., May, 378 (in N. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v.). He could … smooth the place down, and fruzz it up from beneath so deftly, that no one could tell that any hay had been taken.
1889. N. W. Linc. Gloss., Fruz, to rub the hair the wrong way on, to entangle.
