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frowsier

frowsier is the comparative 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

Questions about frowsier

What is frowsier the comparative form of?
Frowsier is the comparative form of frowsy.

Words near frowsier in the dictionary

  1. frowny faces
  2. frows
  3. frowse
  4. frowsed
  5. frowses
  6. frowsier
  7. frowsiest
  8. frowsily
  9. frowsing
  10. frowst
  11. frowsted

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