frouzy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare froust (“a musty smell”), frouse (“to rumple”), frouze (“to curl”), frounce, frowy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
frouzy (comparative more frouzy, superlative most frouzy)
- (British) froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or nose
- fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight
- slovenly; dingy
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Lady's Dressing Room:
- Petticoats in frouzy heaps.
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Further reading[edit]
- “frouzy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.