frouzy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare froust (“a musty smell”), frouse (“to rumple”), frouze (“to curl”), frounce.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfɹaʊzi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊzi
Adjective
[edit]frouzy (comparative more frouzy, superlative most frouzy)
- (British) froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or nose
- fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight
- slovenly; dingy
- 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Lady's Dressing Room:
- Petticoats in frouzy heaps.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “frouzy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.