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Frowzy vs Frowny - What's the difference?

frowzy | frowny |

As adjectives the difference between frowzy and frowny

is that frowzy is alternative spelling of frowsy while frowny is (informal|or|childish) frowning.

frowzy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Alternative spelling of frowsy
  • * George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), 1989 ed., p. 8, ISBN 978-0-141-18776-1
    • He had seen it lying in the window of a frowzy 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.

    Related terms

    * frouzy

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    * English words suffixed with -y

    frowny

    English

    Adjective

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