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Frowsty vs Frowsy - What's the difference?

frowsty | frowsy |

As adjectives the difference between frowsty and frowsy

is that frowsty is musty; stuffy (atmosphere while frowsy is having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

frowsty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (UK) musty; stuffy (atmosphere)

    • 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.