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frowsting

frowsting is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about frowsting

What is frowsting the present participle and gerund of?
Frowsting is the present participle and gerund of frowst.

Words near frowsting in the dictionary

  1. frowsters
  2. frowstier
  3. frowstiest
  4. frowstily
  5. frowstiness
  6. frowsting
  7. frowsts
  8. frowsty
  9. frowsy
  10. frowze
  11. frowzed

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