Frousy

Quick meaning: Frousy is an adjective meaning Alternative form of frowsy.

Meaning

Alternative form of frowsy.

Example Sentences

Fate stood by that news-stall, with the blear-eyed, frousy woman that tended it looking vacantly on; Fate, veiled, too, and not even monosyllabic in his behalf.

With him they went the rounds of squalid tenements, hideous back alleys, and repulsive shanties, the tattered children gazing at them with faces in which curiosity was mingled with aversion, and their frousy parents giving them looks of enmity and mistrust, no doubt because they were so clean and well dressed.

Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal-stove, made of old bricks, was a gray-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself from the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung, upon a line; and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.

Word Forms

• frousier
• frousiest

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