| \FROU-zee\ | adjective
1. dirty and untidy; slovenly.
2. ill-smelling; musty.
| | Quotes | Such hair as he had was of a grizzled black, cut short and straight upon his temples, and hanging in a frowzy fridge about his ears.
-- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of frowzy | | Frowzy entered English in the late 1600s. It is of uncertain origin. Some authorities say frowzy may be a variant of frowsty, whose earliest written attestation is in the mid-1800s. | |
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