frouzy

Compare froust (“a musty smell”), frouse (“to rumple”), frouze (“to curl”), frounce, frowy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaʊzi/
• Rhymes: -aʊzi

frouzy (comparative more frouzy, superlative most frouzy)

1. (Britain) froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or nose
2. fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight
3. slovenly; dingy
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, s:The Lady's Dressing Room

     Petticoats in frouzy heaps.

• frowzy

• frouzy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913