Meaning

5 senses

  1. (transitive)To make into a frill.

  2. (intransitive)To become wrinkled.

  3. (transitive)To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.

  4. (intransitive, obsolete)To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).

  5. (intransitive, obsolete)To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

Examples

3 sentences

  1. No-frills airlines have a bad reputation.

    deBilligflieger haben einen schlechten Ruf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Tom was looking for a no-frills vacation destination.

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  3. It provides no-frills accommodation for budget-conscious travellers.

    deEs bietet Reisenden mit kleinem Geldbeutel eine günstige Unterkunft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

Of uncertain origin. From Old French friller.

Of uncertain origin.

From Old French friller.

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Forms

frills, frilling, frilled, frilled
Base formfrill · to frill
3rd person singularfrills
Present participlefrilling
Past simplefrilled
Past participlefrilled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfrill
he, she, itfrills

Past simpleLesson

all personsfrilled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave frilled
he, she, ithas frilled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill frill

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfriller

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
frightfulfrightfullyfrigidfringefrisk

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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