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Definition: Frowsy |
FrowsyAdjective1. Negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frowsy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Synonyms: FrowsySynonyms: frowzy (adj), slovenly (adj). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Frowsy girls sat along the curbstones before their baskets |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Frowsy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frowsy" is used about 3 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "frowsy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bedompig (airless, close, stuffy). (various references) | |
Albanian | i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, frowsty, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), i mykur (frowsty, frowzy, fusty, moldy, mouldy, musty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вмирисан (frowsty, frowzy). (various references) | |
Czech | zanedbaný (derelict, frowzy, neglected, neglectful, squalid, uncared for, uncultivated, unkempt). (various references) | |
Dutch | bedompt (airless, close, stuffy). (various references) | |
Greek | ακατάστατοσ (blowzy, disorderly, frowzy, messy, mussy, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, unsettled, untidy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | áporodott (airless, frouzy, frowsty, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, stuffy, vapid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owsyfray.(various references) | |
Russian | затхлый (frowsty, frowzy, fusty, musty, pockety). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neuredan (disorderly, disorganized, frowzy, inordinate, littery, sloppy, slovenly, untidy). (various references) | |
Swedish | unken (frowsty, frowzy, fusty, musty, stale, whiffy), slampig (frowzy), ruggig (gruesome, raw, ruffled, shabby, teaselled), okammad (frowzy, uncombed, unkempt), kvav (airless, close, frowsty, frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry), instängd (cabined, confined, frowsty, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, pent, shut up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhếch nhác (chatty, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly), hôi hám bẩn tưởi (frowzy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Frowsy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arnowsky, Ferdowsi, flowsy, fowy, frawzy, frowny, frows, frowsied, frowst, growsy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-r-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: frows. | |
-2 letters: foys, frow, rosy, rows, yows. | |
-3 letters: for, foy, fro, fry, ors, row, sow, soy, wos, wry, yow. | |
-4 letters: of, or, os, ow, oy, so, wo, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-o-r-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: frowsty. | |
+4 letters: dayflowers, fancyworks, mayflowers. | |
+5 letters: housewifery, sorrowfully. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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