Definition of Frowy

1. a. Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter.

Definition of Frowy

1. Adjective. (archaic) musty, rancid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frowy

1. of timber, soft and brittle [adj FROWIER, FROWIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowy

frowny
frows
frowsier
frowsiest
frowsily
frowst
frowsted
frowster
frowsters
frowstier
frowstiest
frowsting
frowsts
frowsty
frowsy
frowy (current term)
frowzier
frowziest
frowzily
frowziness
frowzled
frowzy
froyo
froyos
froze
frozen
frozen(p)
frozen-in flow law
frozen cow juice
frozen custard

Literary usage of Frowy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"An ash ' was so frowy and short as to be good for nothing else ... Hal. assigns a different meaning to frowy, but gives ..."

2. Reprinted Glossaries by Walter William Skeat (1879)
"An ash ' was so frowy and short as to bo good for nothing else but the fire. ... Hal. assigns a different moaning to frowy, but gives f rough in tho same ..."

3. Old Country and Farming Words: Gleaned from Agricultural Books by James Britten (1880)
"An ash ' was so frowy and short as to be good for nothing else but the fire. ... Hal. assigns a different meaning to frowy, but gives f rough in the same ..."

4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) 1856 This 'ere butter's a leetle grain frowy. ... 1866 Mrs. D is a decent housekeeper, and so her bread is not sour, her butter not frowy, &c. ..."

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