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Frowsty

Definition: Frowsty

Frowsty

Adjective

1. Stale and unclean smelling.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Frowsty

Synonyms: fusty (adj), musty (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Frowsty

"Frowsty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frowsty" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Frowsty

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

Albanian

  

zagushi (fug, stuffiness, sultriness, sultry weather, swelter), vapë (heat, swelter), i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), i mykur (frowsy, frowzy, fusty, moldy, mouldy, musty). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale, taint). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

спарен (fusty, pockety, stale), вмирисан (frowsy, frowzy). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malfreŝaera (close, stuffy). (various references)

   

French

  

qui sent le renfermé. (various references)

   

German

  

moderig (frowstily, frowzily, frowzy, fusty, mouldy, musty). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πνιγηρόσ (fuggy, stuffy, sweltering, sweltery), πνιγερόσ (muggy, stuffy). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

באוש (malodorous, spoilt, stale, stinking). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fülledt (frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry, sweaty), áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, stuffy, vapid). (various references)

   

Manx

  

plooghit (chesty, choked, close, congested, fuggy, glutted, inundated, overcome with smoke, smothered, stifled, stunk out, suffocated, suppressed, teeming, thick, thick as voice). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owstyfray

   

Russian 

  

спертый (close, frowst, frowzy, fuggy, muggy, pockety, stuffy), затхлый (frowsy, frowzy, fusty, musty, pockety). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sparan (muggy, stuffy, sultry, sweltering). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sofocante (close, oppressive, smothery, stifling, suffocant, suffocating, sultry), cargado (airless, charged, charges, encumbered, encumbers, laded, laden, loaded, stuffy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

unken (frowsy, frowzy, fusty, musty, stale, whiffy), kvav (airless, close, frowsy, frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry), instängd (cabined, confined, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, pent, shut up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

küf kokulu (dank, frowzy, fusty, musty, nosey, nosy, smelling moldy, smelling mouldy, stuffy), havasız (airless, fuggy, stuffy, unaired), basık (flattened, frowzy, low, overcast, receding, stuffy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

затхлий (frowzy, fusty, spent, stale). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

n"ng nặc uế khí, hôi hám; có mùi ẩm mốc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Frowsty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-o-r-s-t-w-y"

-1 letter: frosty, frowst, frowsy.

-2 letters: forts, forty, frost, frows, ryots, softy, story, strow, stroy, trows, troys, tyros, worst, worts.

-3 letters: fort, foys, frow, orts, rosy, rots, rows, ryot, soft, sort, stow, swot, tors, tory, tows, towy, toys, trow, troy, twos, tyro, wort, wost, wots, yows.

-4 letters: for, foy, fro, fry, oft, ors, ort, rot, row.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Frowsty


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 72 6F 77 73 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-.    ---    .--.    ...    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110010 01101111 01110111 01110011 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#111 &#119 &#115 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 006F 0077 0073 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40848189858691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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