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frizzle (v.)
"curl hair," 1560s, perhaps related to Old English
fris
"curly" and Old Frisian
frisle
. Or else from Middle French
friser
"to curl" (see
frizz
(v.)). Related:
Frizzled
;
frizzling
. As a noun from 1610s, "crisp curl," from the verb.