Frowzy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frowzy \Frow"zy\, a. [See {Frouzy}.]
     Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy."
     --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. --W. D.


                                                    Howells.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frowzy
       adj : negligent of neatness especially in dress and person;
             habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her
             frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly
             appearance" [syn: {frowsy}, {slovenly}]
       [also: {frowziest}, {frowzier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "frowzy":
     bad, bad-smelling, beat-up, bedraggled, blasted, blighted, blown,
     blowzy, careless, chintzy, despoiled, dilapidated, drabbletailed,
     draggled, draggletailed, fecal, fetid, flyblown, foul, frowsty,
     frowsy, frowy, frumpish, frumpy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy,
     graveolent, grubby, high, ill-smelling, in rags, informal, loose,
     lumpen, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, messy, miasmal, miasmic,
     mildewed, mildewy, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mussy, musty,
     negligent, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid,
     poky, putrid, ragged, raggedy, rancid, rank, ravaged, reasty,
     reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, ruinous,
     scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod,
     sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutted,
     smutty, sordid, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy,
     sulfurous, tacky, tattered, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy,
     vile, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy