Frowsy

Quick meaning: Frowsy is an adjective meaning Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

Meaning

Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

Example Sentences

Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets.

Having, like Jude, made rather a hasty toilet to catch the train, Arabella looked a little frowsy, and her face was very far from possessing the animation which had characterized it at the bar the night before.

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.

And then, ſo nice, and ſo genteel; / Such Cleanlineſs from Head to Heel: / No Humours groſs, or frowzy Steams, / No noiſom Whiffs, or ſweaty Streams, / Before, behind, above, below, / Could from her taintleſs Body flow.

Word Forms

• frowsier
• frowsiest
• frowzy

Synonyms for frowsy

Depending on context, synonyms include slovenly, untidy, frowzy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slovenly, untidy, frowzy, frousy, frouzy, scruffy.

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