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Frowey vs Frowsy - What's the difference?

frowey | frowsy |

As adjectives the difference between frowey and frowsy

is that frowey is working smoothly or without splitting while frowsy is having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

frowey

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (carpentry, of timber) working smoothly or without splitting
  • (of butter) rancid

    • Synonyms

    * (rancid) frowy (Webster 1913)

    frowsy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * frowzy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p. 9
    • He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.