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froust

froust is the alternative spelling of frowst.

Meaning of frowst

Verb

frowst (third-person singular simple present frowsts, present participle frowsting, simple past and past participle frowsted)

  1. (intransitive) To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
    • The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;1902, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the story)”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC

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Forms of froust

third-person singular presentfrousts
present participlefrousting
past participlefrousted
pastfrousted

Questions about froust

What is froust the alternative spelling of?
Froust is the alternative spelling of frowst.

Words near froust in the dictionary

  1. frouncing
  2. froup
  3. froups
  4. frousier
  5. frousiest
  6. froust
  7. frousted
  8. frousting
  9. frousts
  10. frousy
  11. frouziest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: froust (page history and authors); frowst (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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