frill

Meaning

Noun

1. A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.
2. A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.
3. A wrinkled edge to a film.
4. Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.
5. The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.

Verb

1. To make into a frill.
2. To become wrinkled.
3. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
2. (obsolete) To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

Synonyms

flounce

ruffle

furbelow

ruff

folderal

edging

embellishment

fringe

gathers

gimcrack

gimcrackery

jabot

luxury

nonsense

ornament

trumpery

falderol

affectation

cortina

neckband

neckpiece

armilla

decoration

detail

ruche

border

crimp

folded

fragment

bits

collar

ruffled

spit

air

tucker

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɹɪl/

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.