Definition of frill Frill

/fɹɪˈl/ - [fril] - frill

We found 21 definitions of frill from 6 different sources.

What does frill mean?

Noun Plural: frills
frill - a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
		flounce, ruffle, furbelow
		adornment the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting
		gauffer, goffer an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats
		jabot a ruffle on the front of a woman's blouse or a man's shirt
frill - (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
		plate dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
frill - an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
		ruff
frill - ornamental objects of no great value
		folderal, falderol, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery

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frill (Noun)
A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
frill (Noun)
A wrinkled edge to a film.
frill (Noun)
A luxury.
frill (Verb)
To make something into a frill.
frill (Verb)
To become wrinkled.
frill (Verb)
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.

frill (v. i.)
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
frill (v. i.)
To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
frill (v. t.)
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
frill (v. i.)
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
frill (v. i.)
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
frill (v. i.)
A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
frill (v. i.)
A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
frill (v. i.)
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

frill
fril, v.i. to ruffle, as a hawk its feathers, when shivering.—v.t. to furnish with a frill.—n. a ruffle: a ruffled or crimped edging of linen.—ns. Frilled′-liz′ard, a lizard with an extraordinary frilled membrane attached to the hinder part of the head, neck, and chest, and covering its shoulders; Frill′ing, frilled edging. [Usually conn. with O. Fr. friller, to shiver; but prob. related to furl.]

frill
Was an ornamental appendage to the shirt which officers and soldiers generally wore with regimentals. A small aperture was usually made at the top to admit the hook and eye of the uniform coat. Enlisted men generally wore frills detached from the coat.

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