frowzy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: frowz=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

frowzy, a. [See Frouzy.].

 Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
"The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

frowzy, adj. (also frowsy) (-ier, -iest)
1 fusty, musty, ill-smelling, close.
2 slatternly, unkempt, dingy.

Derivative

frowziness n.

Etymology

17th c.: orig. unkn.: cf. earlier frowy

THESAURUS

frowzy

bad, bad-smelling, beat-up, bedraggled, blasted, blighted, blown, blowzy, careless, chintzy, despoiled, dilapidated, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, fecal, fetid, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, grubby, high, ill-smelling, in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, messy, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mussy, musty, negligent, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, poky, putrid, ragged, raggedy, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted, smutty, sordid, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, tacky, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vile, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy