Frill

Definition: Frill

Frill

Noun

1. A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "frill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Frill

Edge

Frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp.

Crosswords: Frill

John Frill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He took a great deal of snuff, and had a particular skill in ruffling his lace frill with the back of his hand

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "frill": frill girdling ♦ posy with paper frill ♦ put on frill. Additional references.

Ending with "frill": pie-frill.

Albanian

fruda (froufrou, furbelow, ruffle, valance), lulkë (curlicue, floret), kreshtë (crest, ridge, top), bëj fruda. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشكش الثوب, ‏كشكش (flounce, ruffle), ‏هدب (flounce, fringe, hem), ‏غير مكلف (inexpensive). (various references)

Bulgarian 

яка (collar, gorget, neckpiece), волан (flounce, furbelow, ruffle, skirt, steering wheel, wheel), набор (class, composition, draft, draught, furbelow, gathers, intake, matter, pucker, quilling, ruck, ruffle, shirr, skirt, typesetting), жабо (dicky, gorget, jabot, ruffle). (various references)

Chinese 

褶边 (frills). (various references)

Czech

fiší, volán (ruffle), ozdoby (jewellery, trappings), karnýr (ruffle), žabó. (various references)

Danish

ringning med rillesnit (frill girdling, frilling, hack-girdling, hacking). (various references)

Dutch

losgaan (detach). (various references)

Finnish

röyhelö. (various references)

French

friser (frizz, frontiers), volant, se détacher (free itself), sans manière, ruche, pas cher. (various references)

German

verzierungen (decorations, frets, garnishments, ornamentation, ornaments), sich loesen (detach, part), rüsche (flounce, quilling, ruche, ruffle), manschette (cuff, sleeve, stranglehold, wristband), krause (crinkliness, frizziness, gathering, ruff, ruffle), kragen (collar, collars, neckwear), kräuseln (Crimp, dimple, frizz, gather, gather in folds, knit, make frizzy, pucker, ruffle, screw up, stir, to dimple, to frill, wrinkle), kinkerlitzchen (frippery, knickknacks), hautfalte (skin fold). (various references)

Greek 

κροσσόσ (fringe, jabot), έξτρα, σούφλα (spit), γαρνίρισμα (trimming), νάζια (affectation), μπορντούρα (edging), πιέτα (pleat, tuck), πλισσέσ, φριλλιά. (various references)

Hebrew 

ציצית (forelock, fringe, tassel). (various references)

Hungarian

fodor (crinkling, dimple, ruffle, tier). (various references)

Italian

fronzolo (bauble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw), trina (lace), gala increspata, gala (bow, festivity, gala, luxury, pomp, ribbon), balza (crag, flounce), arricciare (become curly, Crimp, Crinkle, curl, dimple, frizz, frizzle, pucker). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

フリップフロップ回路 (flint glass, flip-flop circuit, flute, fringe, fruit, fruit parlor, fruit punch, fruit salad, fruit sauce, fruitcake, full, full count, full course, full install). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

フリル . (various references)

Manx

robbee (ruffle). (various references)

Pig Latin

illfray.(various references)

Portuguese

rufo (ruche, ruff), rufar, preguear (gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, shirr), guarnição de renda, enfeitar (apparel, bejewel, caparison, deck, embellish, garnish, groom, ornament, perk, prank, prettify, primp, set out, sugar-coat, titivate, tog oneself up), coleira de penas, ares (Ares), afetação (affectation, affectedness, airs, assumption, courtliness, coxcombry, mannerism, namby-pamby, pomposity, preciosity, pretence, pretense, pretension, primness). (various references)

Romanian

fasoane (airs and frills), zorzoane (frippery, furbelow, gewgaws), volan (flounce, flyer, furbelow, wheel), podoabe inutile, pliseu (fold), plisa (Crimp, Crinkle, draw, enfold, fold, full, goffer, pleat, ruffle, tuck), jabou (Dickey, jabot), cutã (crease, flow, fold, line, ply, seam, wrinkle), împodobi o rochie cu volane. (various references)

Russian 

оборка (flounce, furbelow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suvišan ukras, nabor (crease, crinkle, fold, goffer, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, tuck, wrinkle). (various references)

Spanish

faralá, rizar (Crimp, dimple, frizz, frizzle, keck, ripple), lechuguilla, escarolar (curl). (various references)

Swedish

rynka (crease, Crinkle, furrow, gather, knit, line, pleat, pucker, shirr, wringkle, wrinkle). (various references)

Turkish

farbala (flounce, flute, furbelow, ruffle), fırfırlı yaka (ruff), fırfır yapmak, fırfır (fall, flounce, furbelow, ruffle), volan (flounce, flywheel), saçak gibi tüyler, süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), manşet (caption, cuff, heading, headline, screamer, streamer, streamer headline, wristband), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, furrow, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering). (various references)

Ukrainian

гофрувати (corrugate, gauffer, goffer, quill, ruffle), оборка (flounce, furbelow, ruffle), жабо, прикрашати оборками (flounce). (various references)

Vietnamese 

kiểu cách (euphuistic, fashion, fussy, lardy-dardy, mannered, precious, preciously). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "frill": frilled, friller, frillers, frillier, frilliest, frilling, frillings, frills, frilly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Frill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crill, Errill, Farril, feril, filll, firl, forall, Forgill, foril, frall, frel, frial, frild, frile, frol, frrl, frul, furfill, furill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fill, rill.

-2 letters: fil, fir, ill, rif.

-3 letters: if, li.

+1 letter: filler, frills, frilly, refill.

+2 letters: fillers, frailly, frilled, friller, refills.

+3 letters: brimfull, fibrilla, filarial, fireball, firehall, firewall, floridly, freewill, frillers, frillier, frilling, hellfire, irefully, lowlifer, overfill, rainfall, refilled.

+4 letters: alfilaria, bifilarly, direfully, fertilely, fiberfill, fibrefill, fibrillae, fibrillar, filtrable, fireballs, firehalls, firewalls, flaringly, flatliner, fleshlier, flowerily, folkloric, frilliest, frillings, frivolled, frivoller, fulfiller, fulleries, fullering, hellfires, lowlifers, nullifier, overfills, prefilled, rainfalls, refalling, refelling, refilling, shellfire, villiform.