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frousy

frousy is the alternative form of frowsy.

Meaning of frowsy

Adjective

frowsy (comparative frowsier, superlative frowsiest)

  1. Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
    • And then, ſo nice, and ſo genteel; / Such Cleanlineſs from Head to Heel: / No Humours groſs, or frowzy Steams, / No noiſom Whiffs, or ſweaty Streams, / Before, behind, above, below, / Could from her taintleſs Body flow.1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 8

Forms of frousy

comparativefrousier
superlativefrousiest

Questions about frousy

What is frousy the alternative form of?
Frousy is the alternative form of frowsy.

Words near frousy in the dictionary

  1. frousiest
  2. froust
  3. frousted
  4. frousting
  5. frousts
  6. frousy
  7. frouziest
  8. frouzily
  9. frouzy
  10. frovatriptan
  11. frover

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