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Definition of Frowsy
1. Adjective. Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt. "Slovenly appearance"
Similar to: Untidy
Derivative terms: Sloven, Slovenliness, Slovenliness
Definition of Frowsy
1. Adjective. Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frowsy
1. frowzy [adj -SIER, -SIEST] - See also: frowzy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowsy
Literary usage of Frowsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris (1912)
"But I was not to be enticed into an empty discussion of terms. "Well, then, say
frowsy. Call it a frowsy fire. You know what frowsy ..."
2. A Levantine Log-book by Jerome Alfred Hart (1905)
"As I gazed at this gorgeous person, gold-laced above, frowsy and filthy below,
a bulbous umbrella in his right hand, his left holding a gold-hilted sabre, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review Great (1873)
"... Park Lane for that "frowsy" abode of royalty, "if it were not for our lovely—what
is her name ?—Queen of Lilies." He rolls off thither with this parting ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"a horror of the mother that bore him, in whose frowsy embraces he lay
suffocating,—horror of himself because he could not feel toward her ¡is a son should ..."
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