FRILL

folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery

(noun) ornamental objects of no great value

frill, flounce, ruffle, furbelow

(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

frill, ruff

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

frill

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

frill (plural frills)

A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

Synonyms: flounce, furbelow, ruffle

(figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

(photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.

(figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.

(zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.

Synonym: neck frill

Verb

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

(transitive) To make into a frill.

(intransitive) To become wrinkled.

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

Etymology 2

Verb

frill (third-person singular simple present frills, present participle frilling, simple past and past participle frilled)

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

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Frill, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Frilling.] Etym: [OF. friller, fr. L. frigidulus somewhat cold, dim. of frigidus cold; akin to F. frileux chilly.]

1. To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills. Johnson.

2. (Photog.)

Definition: To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.

Frill, v. t.

Definition: To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.

Frill, n. Etym: [See Frill, v. i.]. (Zoöl.) (a) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold. (b) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. See Frilled lizard (below). (c) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals. (d) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.

2. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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