2. Adjective. frayed at the edges ¹
3. Adjective. stressed and exhausted either physically or emotionally ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frazzled
1. frazzle [v] - See also: frazzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frazzled
Literary usage of Frazzled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"frazzled out (American), used in the Southern States. Frayed, " frizzled," or
worn out. " Bimeby," continued the old man, "de switches dey got ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) 1893 One's garments get frazzled in the grass ; one's mind and body... ...
Indeed, it seemed to have increased as their nerves became more "frazzled. ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"Still more highly magnified detail of frazzled roof of cavity in another section
from same plant; loose hyphae of fundamental ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
""I 'm all frazzled out," she apologized. "Mrs. Lindsey and me has been up with him
... It 's so dark, and I 'm sort of—frazzled." Her voice was very weary. ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
""I 'm all frazzled out," she apologized. "Mrs. Lindsey and me has been up with him
... It 's so dark, and I 'm sort of—frazzled." Her voice was very weary. ..."
6. Gardening (1905)
"And don't they look frazzled out today?" "frazzled," repeated the aristocratic
French Chatenay rose. "I wish you wouldn't persist in using your atrocious ..."
7. The Texas Vendetta, Or, The Sutton-Taylor Feud by Victor M. Rose (1880)
"... what I suppose to be a gun-shot wound, from the fact that the hole was so
large and frazzled. His coat at the hole was badly powder burnt. ..."
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