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Definition of Frowsty
1. Adjective. Stale and unclean smelling.
Similar to: Ill-smelling, Malodorous, Malodourous, Stinky, Unpleasant-smelling
Derivative terms: Must, Mustiness
Definition of Frowsty
1. Adjective. (U.K.) musty; stuffy (atmosphere) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frowsty
1. musty [adj -TIER, -TIEST] - See also: musty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowsty
Literary usage of Frowsty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"I am not so sure that it should not sometimes be driven out into the open—imprisoned
in the woods and on the mountains, as it were. For there are frowsty ..."
2. The Harrovian by Harrow School (1870)
"It evidently comes from frowsty, old Harrovian dialect for the Johnsonian word
... Ex.: " How frowsty your room is ! ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"frowsty (MOBBERLEY), FROWZY (MACCLESFIELD), adj. close smelling, like a room of
which the windows are never opened. FROZZEN, part, frozen. ..."
4. Washington Close-ups: Intimate Views of Some Public Figures by Edward George Lowry (1921)
"... and 6213 sheet-writers (or thereabouts) lost their jobs that kept them out in
the open air and had to go to work in the frowsty pool-rooms. ..."
5. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1849)
"... frowsty, who lived down stairs, also read very hard, being a devoted student
of the lightest literature of the day, which is of gossamer delicacy of ..."
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