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Definition of Frowzy
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 Frowzy
1. a. Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy.
Definition of Frowzy
1. Adjective. Alternative spelling of '''frowsy''' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frowzy
1. unkempt [adj -ZIER, -ZIEST] : FROWZILY [adv] - See also: unkempt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frowzy
Literary usage of Frowzy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit and Mirth; Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best by Thomas D'Urfey (1719)
"I Hate a Fop that at his Glass Stands prinking half the Day, With a sallow frowzy
olive colour'd Face, And a powder'd Peruke hanging to his Wast, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1865)
"frowzy, an old camp-follower, is employed to deceive, in the disguise of a lady of
... frowzy. Mr. Bull, on the other side of the water this liquor is grown ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"As on the tanks t frowzy. From those drear solitudes and frowzy cells, . ...
And all my frowzy couch in sorrow steep ; lb. Drifting o'er the frozen plain. ..."
4. Dogdom: Monthly (1920)
"frowzy Peggy eliminated them all in the limit, American-bred, and local, meeting
in the open Hillsview Mistress, which grabbed the blue away from her in ..."
5. London Films by William Dean Howells (1905)
"The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of
the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white ..."
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