frill

frill is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
2. intransitive verb. To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
3. transitive verb. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
4. intransitive verb. A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
5. intransitive verb. A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
6. intransitive verb. A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
7. intransitive verb. A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
8. intransitive verb. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
9. noun. ornamental objects of no great value

   Synonyms: falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery

10. noun. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

    Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle

11. noun. an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal

    Synonyms: ruff

12. noun. (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs

Synonyms

falderol, folderal, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery, flounce, furbelow, ruffle, ruff

Common word forms

frills, frilled, friller, frilling

Words from these letters

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