Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Frizzle

Frizzle , transitive verb

[Dim. of friz.]

To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle. — Gay
Collocations (1)
To frizzle up , to crinkle or crisp excessively.

Frizzle , verb, transitive and intransitive

[Freq. of an imitative word frizz, in dial. use.]

1.
To fry, toast, or broil with a sputtering sound to cook with a sizzling noise. Also fig. — Hawthorne
2.
To cook, in certain way, so as to curl or crinkle up.
Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it. — Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book)

Frizzle , noun

A curl; a lock of hair crisped. — Milton