Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
- 2intransitive verb
To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
- 3transitive verb
To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
- 4intransitive verb
A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
- 5intransitive verb
A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
- 6intransitive verb
A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
- 7intransitive verb
A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
- 8intransitive verb
A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.
- 9noun
ornamental objects of no great value
- 10noun
a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- 11noun
an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
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- 12noun
(paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs
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