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Frowsy vs Frowy - What's the difference?

frowsy | frowy |

As adjectives the difference between frowsy and frowy

is that frowsy is having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance while frowy is (archaic) musty, rancid.

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.

    frowy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) musty, rancid
    • frowy butter
    frowy feed
    (Webster 1913)