Definition of "frizzly" [friz•zly]

• Tightly curled. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Billy Green, at the moment, was training a tiny, nondescript, frizzly-haired dog."
• "Her long hair is tied back, strands around her face frizzly from steam."
• "A lady came in to the library today sporting a goodly crop of frizzly chin hairs of, I kid you not, nearly two inches in length."