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FROUZY

Definition: FROUZY

FROUZY

Adjective

1. Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FROUZY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Etymology: Frouzy \Frou"zy\, adjective. [Prov. English frouzy froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; compare to froust musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and English frounce, frowy.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: FROUZY

Etymologies containing "FROUZY": frowzy. (references)

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Modern Translation: FROUZY

Language Translations for "FROUZY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, filthy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), mosdatlan (frowzy, grubby, unwashed), dohos (damp, frowzy, fusty, moldy, mouldy, musty, stuffy), áporodott (airless, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, stuffy, vapid), ápolatlan (frowzy, scruffy, slatternly, slovenly, unkempt, untidy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouzyfray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "FROUZY"

Words rhyming with "FROUZY" (pronounced 'Frou"zy'): Crazy, frowzy, hazy, lazy, mazy, Mizzy, Muzzy, sleazy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FROUZY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-o-r-u-y-z"

-1 letter: furzy.

-2 letters: four, fozy, fury, your.

-3 letters: for, fou, foy, fro, fry, fur, our, you.

-4 letters: of, or, oy, yo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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