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frill⋅y

  [fril-ee]
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–adjective, frill⋅i⋅er, frill⋅i⋅est.
1. covered with or marked by frills: Some of the more elaborate dress shirts have frilly fronts.
2. frivolous; inconsequential: After a day of intense concentration and serious business, they feel like doing something frilly and amusing.
Origin:
1835–45; frill + -y 1

Related forms:
frill⋅i⋅ness, noun
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frill   (frĭl)   
n.  

  1. A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing or a curled paper strip for decorating the end of the bone of a piece of meat.

  2. A ruff of hair or feathers about the neck of an animal or a bird.

  3. A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.

  4. Informal Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury. See Synonyms at luxury.

v.   frilled, frill·ing, frills

v.   tr.

  1. To make into a ruffle or frill.

  2. To add a ruffle or frill to.

v.   intr.
To become wrinkled along the edge.

[Origin unknown.]
fril'li·ness n., frill'y adj.
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