(idiomatic) Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.

A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. / (figuratively) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

(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.

(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).

Having frills; frilled. / Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.

The lizard Chlamydosaurus kingii, native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, which has a large contractile membranous frill around its neck that usually stays folded against its body but is extended in territorial and courtship display.

plural of frill

Having frills, frilly.

simple past tense and past participle of frill

present participle of frill