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frowzy, a.|ˈfraʊzɪ|
Also 7–9 frouzy, 8–9 frowsy, (9 frousy).
[Perh. cognate with frowsty, or with some of the other words there referred to. Cf. also frowze n.]
1. Ill-smelling, fusty, musty; having a ‘close’ unpleasant smell from being dirty, unwashed, ill-ventilated, or the like.
1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iv. i, An overgrown Deputy of the Ward, tho a frouzy Fellmonger. a1700Dryden quoted in Faction Displ. (1704) 15 With Frowzy Pores, that taint the ambient Air. 1773Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 400 It is the frouzy corrupt air from animal substances. a1802Strutt Bumpkin's Disaster (1808) 19 Is pinching frowzy wenches in their bed Fit sport for spirits? 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, By the steams of moist acts of Parliament and frowsy petitions. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. ix, In his weeks my study was so frowsy I couldn't sit in it. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. iv. iii. 252 Another Greek convent, said to be frowzier, if possible, than that of Csalho.
2. Having a dirty, untidy, soiled, neglected appearance (like e.g. unkempt hair); dingy, rusty, slatternly, unkempt. Of the complexion: Red and coarse, blowzy.
1710Apparition 7 A frowzy high-crown'd Hat his face did hide. 1716Swift Progr. Beauty Wks. 1755 III. ii. 163 A frowzy dirty-colour'd red Sits on her cloudy wrinkled face. 1752J. Spence [Sir H. Beaumont] Crito 53 His Woman of a..sun-burnt frowsy Complexion. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 214 See! on the floor, what frowzy patches rest! 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 530 The frowzy hostess would complain. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop iii, Hair..hanging in a frowzy fringe about his forehead. 1848― Dombey vi, There were frowzy fields, and cowhouses..at the very door of the Railway. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret ii. ii, [He] produced from the pocket..three frowsy acidulated drops. 1882Chamb. Jrnl. 90 A pony would be shoving its frowzy brow against its master's shoulder. 1895Gloss. E. Anglia, Frouzy, blouzy, with disordered and uncombed hair.
fig.1821Byron Juan iii. xciv, A drowzy frowzy poem, call'd the ‘Excursion’, Writ in a manner which is my aversion. 1859Lang Wand. India 245 Even the frowsy military board—composed of several very old and feeble Company's officers of the last century—was frightened into something like activity.
3. Comb., as frowzy-headed adj.
1860Holland Miss Gilbert iv. 53 Frowzy-headed men passed him in the yard. 1875Howells Foregone Concl. 60 A frowsy-headed woman.
Hence ˈfrowziness.
1714Mandeville Fab. Bees ii. (1733) 41 The Frowsiness of the Place, and the ill Scents of different kinds, are a perpetual Nuisance. 1835Beckford Recoll. 106 That species of high conventual frowziness which monastic habits and garments are not a little apt to engender. 1881Daily News 7 Dec. 5/3 They regard..the frowziness of our [railway-carriage] accommodation with contempt. 1893Temple Bar Mag. XCIX. 197 He loves to have his room reeking with heat and frowsiness. |