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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
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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