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Frowsy vs Frowst - What's the difference?

frowsy | frowst |

As an adjective frowsy

is having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

As a noun frowst is

stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.

As a verb frowst is

to enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.

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.

    frowst

    English

    Alternative forms

    * froust

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
  • *1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle
  • *:I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.

    • Synonyms

    * stuffiness * fustiness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
  • *1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
  • *:The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;