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frowsing

frowsing is the present participle and gerund of frowse.

Meaning of frowse

Verb

frowse (third-person singular simple present frowses, present participle frowsing, simple past and past participle frowsed)

  1. (transitive) To cause to be scruffy or untidy; to rumple or tangle.
  2. (intransitive) To move or be in a scruffy state or manner.
    • Podson, yawning and frowsing out of his blanket, gaped at this ultimatum in the dawn.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 88

Questions about frowsing

What is frowsing the present participle and gerund of?
Frowsing is the present participle and gerund of frowse.

Words near frowsing in the dictionary

  1. frowsed
  2. frowses
  3. frowsier
  4. frowsiest
  5. frowsily
  6. frowsing
  7. frowst
  8. frowsted
  9. frowster
  10. frowsters
  11. frowstier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frowsing (page history and authors); frowse (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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