frowst
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from frowsty.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]frowst (plural frowsts)
- Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
- 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:
- I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.
Synonyms
[edit]- (stuffiness; stifling warmth): stuffiness
- fustiness
Translations
[edit]stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room
Verb
[edit]frowst (third-person singular simple present frowsts, present participle frowsting, simple past and past participle frowsted)
- (intransitive) To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the story)”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
- The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;
Translations
[edit]to enjoy a warm, stuffy room
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