English Explanatory Dictionary

frill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
  2. A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
  3. A wrinkled edge to a film.
  4. Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
  5. The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.
  6. Synonym of armilla.
verb
  1. To make into a frill.
  2. To become wrinkled.
  3. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
verb
  1. To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
  2. To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

Pronunciation

/fɹɪl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-frill.wav

Word forms

frill frills frilling frilled

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.

Synonyms

flounce furbelow ruffle neck frill armilla

Related words

jabot

Derived words

befrill frillback frillery frillless frillneck frill-necked lizard frill shark frillsome frillwork frilly Newgate frill no-frills put on frills shirt-frill turkey frill turkey frills friller
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