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Frowsy vs Frowny - What's the difference?

frowsy | frowny |

As adjectives the difference between frowsy and frowny

is that frowsy is having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance while frowny is frowning.

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.

    frowny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal, or, childish) frowning
    • She made a frowny face.