"frowzy" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɹaʊzi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-frowzy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: frowzier [comparative], frowziest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} frowzy (comparative frowzier, superlative frowziest)
  1. Alternative spelling of frowsy Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: frowsy Related terms: frouzy

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for frowzy meaning in English (2.1kB)

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          "ref": "1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 3, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 34",
          "text": "Half the pages of the frazzled directory hanging on a chain in the musty old booth into which I furtively sidled had turned their corners back on themselves. Such books are like frowzy old broads who have been handled by a thousand men.",
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          "ref": "1994, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 8, in The Master of Petersburg, London: Secker & Warburg, page 90",
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