Frizz is hair standing out in fine unruly wisps. Tame the frizz, frizzy hair, control the frizz.
It is caused by damp: dry hair draws water from the air and swells unevenly, which is why humid days are the worst and why oils and serums work by keeping water out. Curly hair frizzes most because the cuticle lies less flat.
1nounfrizzHair standing out in fine unruly wisps.
“On humid days my hair turns to frizz no matter how much I brush it.”
frizz is a state of hair.
From French friser, to curl or crimp, probably from a Germanic root. Frizzle is a relative.
Proto-Germanic
*frisaz — frizzy, curly
Frankish
*fris — curl
Old French
friser
Middle English
frysen
English, today
frizz
Built from
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"; > frr friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”).
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