frousier
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]frousier
- comparative form of frousy: more frousy
- 1900, Henry Francis Whitfeld, Plymouth and Devonport: In Times of War and Peace, Plymouth, Devon, Devonport, Devon: E. Chapple; Hirons & Miller, page 260:
- And so the sale of war spoils went on, and the company became frousier, and the available prize money accumulated, and Jack went ashore a week or two later with more funds than he had ever hoped to possess, and dissipated it more quickly than he had helped his country to win it—as he fell in with Pretty Poll of Plymouth, and those crimps and sharks who had been her companions when Jack was engaged afloat, calling upon the enemy to heave to or be sent to Davy Jones.