Frizzとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪz/
• 韻: -ɪz

語源 1

From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), 古期英語 frīs (“crisped, curled”).

動詞

frizz (三人称単数 現在形 frizzes, 現在分詞 frizzing, 過去形および過去分詞形 frizzed)

1. (intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
2. (transitive) To curl; to make frizzy.
   • 1660 December 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 22nd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:

     with her hair frized short up to her ears

   • 1937, John Betjeman, Slough:

     In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […]

3. To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
4. To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
5. To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.

派生語

• frizz up

関連する語

• friseur
• frizzle

語源 2

From Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above.

名詞

frizz (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 frizzes)

1. A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.

Further reading

• “frizz”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “frizz”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.