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Five minutes later Frowsty had packed her bag and transferred herself to the
Wynkie mansion. Frowsty was quite keen to see cousin Jessica again because
they hadn't met since Jessica' s marriage to Toerag. Frowsty had always admired
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
wANTONYMS tidy. 2 the frowzy room above the saloon: dingy, gloomy, dull, drab,
dark, badly/ poorly lit, dim; stuffy, close, musty, stale, stagnant, stifling, suffocating,
unfresh; shabby, seedy, run down, tacky; Brit. frowsty, fuggy.
Can inversion of terms go further ? With regard to the verb " to frowst," I do not
think the meaning is very difficult to arrive at. It evidently comes from frowsty, old
Harrovian dialect for the Johnsonian word frouzy. Ex. : " How frowsty your room is
!
Tiny and plumpcheeked at the time—he was such a cute little boy, with an
adorable lisp—he had stopped right in front of Aunt Glenda and asked, “Do you
know what Mr. Grizzle said to me, Aunt Glenda? He said you're a nasty frowsty
old witch ...
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Dictionary of Confusable Words
fruition see fruit fuggy/fusty/frowsty/frowzy Fuggy is used for a dense atmosphere
inside an enclosed space: 'The bar was so fuggy with cigarette smoke that I could
barely breathe.' Fusty implies a moldy or stale smell: 'The professor wore a ...
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Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination
The surface atheist is still protesting desperately, trying to be 'bored' and '
uninformed', calling the place 'an accoutred, frowsty barn', making cheap jibes at '
ruin-bibbers, randy for antique' and Christmas-addicts 'counting on a whiff of ...
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Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
frowsty / fulfill 324 [Fr]; 7 joyless, pouting; 8 dejected; 9 cheerless, saturnine; 10
lugubrious, spiritless, uncheerful; 12 heavy-hearted frowsty: S fusty, musty frowsy:
6 frowzy; 7 frowsty; 8 slovenly frozen: 3 icy; 4 numb; 5 fixed; 6 frigid, frosty, rooted
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Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions,
1999
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Oxford Dictionary of English
back-formation from FROWSTY. frowsty 7adjective (frowstier, frowstiest) Brit.
havV- ing a stale, warm, and stuffy atmosphere: a small, frowsty office. – origin
mid 19th cent. (originally dialect): variant of FROWZY. frowzy /ˈfraʊzi/ (also
frowsy) ...
stranger [moving to the exit]. Come, Doctor. old frowsty [drawn irresistibly to the
exit]. I object. You've no right to do this at all. father higgins. Justice must prevail,
Doctor. To the devil his due. [The stranger takes old frowsty by the arm. old
frowsty ...
stranger [moving to the exit]. Come, Doctor. old frowsty [drawn irresistibly to the
exit]. I object. You've no right to do this at all. father higgins. Justice must prevail,
Doctor. To the devil his due. [The stranger takes old frowsty by the arm. old
frowsty ...
Margaret (Gardner) Mayorga,
1957
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Down: 1 Drama, 2 Nod, 3 Hosanna, 4 Meeker, 5 Graze, 6 Top banana, 7 Frowsty, 11 Grotesque, 13 Tallest, 15 Washing, 16 Chokey, 18 Skive, ... «The Dominion Post, 十二月 14»
The Fire brigade: how the Chiltern Firehouse became a hotspot for …
The Standard's Fay Maschler noted “woven chair webbing on the high ceiling that absorbs noise, sleek tiles laid adjacent to frowsty patterned ... «Evening Standard, 十二月 14»
Why Buy Marks and Spencer Group Plc When You Can Go …
That may be a bit ageist, but if you want to make money selling clothes, you need the young pound, and M&S is just too frowsty to grab it. «The Motley Fool UK, 十一月 14»
The Embers And The Unfounded Myths By Kingsley Ahanonu
The period when the gates of hell are flung open to emit its frowsty scums as evident by the brazen rove in social and infrastructural decrepit. «SaharaReporters.com, 九月 14»
Simple pleasures are easier than Poohsticks
... his half-smoked cigar while a buxom woman leans on the sideboard, staring into the frowsty corner beside a glass dome of little stuffed birds. «Telegraph.co.uk, 八月 14»
Parishes to hold Holy Hour on eve of assisted suicide debate
It is bitterly ironical that it is the supposedly renewed Missal that came after V2, and not the frowsty, unrenewed, stodgy old Missal of 1962 ... «Catholic Herald Online, 七月 14»
So far, yet so near
Venkataramana felt mentally cramped, sharing a frowsty 600 sq. ft Housing Board apartment with his family of five. Today, the car park at his ... «The Hindu, 五月 14»
Henry IV Parts I and II, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon …
... moving with fluency and a fine feel for thematic counterpoint between care-racked court and lax, frowsty Eastcheap, boozer and battlefield, ... «The Independent, 四月 14»
Thérèse Raquin, Finborough Theatre, review
Tara Hugo gives a meticulously observed performance as the elder Mme Raquin, a frowsty old dear whose fussy ways conceal an implacable ... «Telegraph.co.uk, 四月 14»
Fay Maschler reviews Chiltern Firehouse
there are details such as woven chair webbing on the high ceiling that absorbs noise, sleek tiles laid adjacent to frowsty patterned carpeting ... «Evening Standard, 二月 14»