Crossword-Solution: FRILL 5 letters, 127 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Frill v. i. To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
Frill v. i. To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
Frill v. t. To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn
back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
Frill v. i. A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
Frill v. i. A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or
of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
Frill v. i. A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of
animals.
Frill v. i. A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
Frill v. i. A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at
the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

We have 127 clues for the answer “FRILL”

Clue Answers
A fancy detail. 1 answer
Anything superfluous. 1 answer
Bell or whistle 1 answer
Bit of frippery 1 answer
Bit of ornamentation 1 answer
CUTLET-bone, paper ornament on 1 answer
Desirable but not necessary 1 answer
FRINGE of feathers, hair, etc., on bird, animal, or plant 1 answer
Fancy border. 1 answer
Feature absent from generic products 1 answer
Fluted border. 1 answer
Fluted edging. 1 answer
Gathered edging 1 answer
HAM-knuckle, paper ornament on 1 answer
It's not necessary 1 answer
Lacy gown feature 1 answer
Lacy ruffle 1 answer
Lamb-chop decoration 1 answer
Little extra 1 answer
Neck ruff 1 answer
Nice but unnecessary feature 1 answer
Nonessential decoration 1 answer
Nonessential extra 1 answer
Nonessential item 1 answer
ORNAMENTAL paper on cutlet-bone 1 answer
Optional item 1 answer
Ornamental ruffle 1 answer
PAPER ornament 1 answer
Purely decorative detail 1 answer
Ruffle on a shirt 1 answer
Ruffle or Ruche 1 answer
STRIP of woven material gathered at one edge 1 answer
Showy adornment 1 answer
Showy detail 1 answer
Showy extra 1 answer
Superfluous extra 1 answer
Superfluous ornament 1 answer
Superfluous something 1 answer
Superfluous thing 1 answer
Unnecessary embellishment 1 answer
Unnecessary feature 1 answer
Unnecesssary extra 1 answer
Unneeded embellishment 1 answer
Unneeded extra 1 answer
Useless adornment. 1 answer
gathered strip of fabric attached at one edge 1 answer
luxus 1 answer
ruching 1 answer
Extra perk 2 answers
Bit of embellishment 2 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with FRILL (5)

Nothing moved in sky, land, or sea, except a frill of milkwhite foam along the nearer angles of the shore, shreds of which licked the contiguous stones like tongues.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
After all, actually fixing the bugs would siphon off the resources needed to implement the next user-interface frill on marketing's wish list --- and besides, if they started fixing security bugs customers might begin to *expect* it and imagine that their warranties of merchantability gave them some sort of *right* to a system with fewer holes in it than a shotgunned Swiss cheese, and *then* where would we be? Historical note: There are conflicting stories about the origin of this term.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Then, to touch that delicate Elizabethan frill which wound itself so daintily about Edith’s neck--what inconceivable rapture! But it was quite impossible.
Tales From Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen 1995
Simple, inexpensive days, when people dined at three (looking on the newly introduced six o’clock dinners as an English innovation and modern “frill”), and “high-teaed” together dyspeptically off “sally lunns” and “preserves,” washed down by coffee and chocolate, which it was the toilsome duty of a hostess to dispense from a silver-laden tray; days when “rockaways” drawn by lean, long-tailed horses and driven by mustached darkies were, if not the rule, far from being an exception.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
Just remember that I knew you when the frill of your panties showed below your skirt.” “Clarence Heyl!” But he was leaning past her, and pointing out of the window.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008

Quotes with FRILL (3)

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.
Ernest L. Boyer
Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 67 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).