friz
Americanverb (used with or without object)
plural
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Pooty soon Bill said to hisself, 'Goy-blamed ef I don't think he's friz to death, or else he'd say somethin'!'
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
But I reckon thar’s yards on it; and when I begin, I don’t leave off till I’ve done, that I don’t, you bet—not if you’re friz.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
When the water deepened so's we could get into the boat, every man's clothes was drenched an' they friz right on to him.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
I kin remember, when I wasn't no older'n that bub there, there was more snow in one winter 'n we have in five, now; an' Lake Huron was always friz up.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
Frizz, Friz, friz, v.t. to curl: to render rough and tangled.—n. a curl, a wig.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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