frowzy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɹaʊzi/

Adjective

frowzy (comparative frowzier, superlative frowziest)

1. Alternative spelling of frowsy
   • George Orwell, p. 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

     He had seen it lying in the window of a frowzy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.