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Fusty vs Frowzy - What's the difference?

fusty | frowzy |

As adjectives the difference between fusty and frowzy

is that fusty is moldy or musty while frowzy is alternative spelling of frowsy .

fusty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Moldy or musty.
  • Stale-smelling or stuffy.
  • (figuratively, by extension) old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
  • (of wine) Tasting of the cask.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "fusty")

    Derived terms

    * fustily * fustiness

    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

    External links

    * English words suffixed with -y