frizzy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From frizz + -y.

The pale-blue bow on the top of Mrs. Stubbs’s fair frizzy hair quivered. — The Garden Party, and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield
One of these was a large man with a flat nose; the other was a small man with a large frizzy head. — Black Ivory, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
'His russet weeds were brown as heath That clothes the upland fell, And the hair of his head was frizzy red As the purple heather-bell. — The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott

crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy

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