Complete Definition of "frowsy"

English

Alternative spellings
frowzy

Pronunciation
IPA|/�fɹæ�zi/

Adjective
en-adj|frowsier|frowsiest

  1. Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.

#*1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p9
#*:He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.

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