frizzle

1. (transitive) To fry something until crisp and curled.Examples: "Drain and heat it [shaved smoked beef] in one tablespoonful of hot butter, to curl or frizzle it."transitive

2. (transitive) To scorch.Examples: "It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”"transitive

3. (intransitive) To fry noisily, sizzle.Examples: "The bacon frizzled in the pan."intransitive

4. (ambitransitive) To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.Examples: "Now am I prowder of this pouertie, which I know is mine owne, than a wayting gentlewoman is, of a frizled groateſworth of haire, that neuer grewe on her head: […]"ambitransitive