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frowze

frowze is the alternative form 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

Forms of frowze

third-person singular presentfrowzes
present participlefrowzing
past participlefrowzed
pastfrowzed

Questions about frowze

What is frowze the alternative form of?
Frowze is the alternative form of frowse.

Words near frowze in the dictionary

  1. frowstiness
  2. frowsting
  3. frowsts
  4. frowsty
  5. frowsy
  6. frowze
  7. frowzed
  8. frowzes
  9. frowzier
  10. frowziest
  11. frowzily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frowze (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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