frouzy

English

Etymology

Compare froust (“a musty smell”), frouse (“to rumple”), frouze (“to curl”), frounce, frowy.

Adjective

frouzy (comparative more frouzy, superlative most frouzy)

1. (British) froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or nose
2. fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight
3. slovenly; dingy

   Petticoats in frouzy heaps. — Jonathan Swift.

Related terms

• frowzy

Further reading

• “frouzy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “frouzy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)