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• a variation of frowzy.

frouzy

American  

[frou-zee] / ˈfraʊ zi /

adjective

frouzier, frouziest

1. a variant of frowzy.

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Day passed over day: I lived in that horrible lodging; I continued to labour at my novel; it seemed an impossible task—defeat glared at me from every corner of that frouzy room.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The apartment was looking somewhat frouzy, for the Maxwells breakfasted late, and the house-maid had not had time to put it in order.

From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean

He glanced at the frouzy hair, to which not even the beauty of the face beneath could reconcile him; then at the scratched and sun-burned hands, and lastly at the stained and battered gown.

From An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by Wetherald, A. Ethelwyn

Neither was it a poor caravan drawn by a single donkey or feeble old horse, for a pair of horses in pretty good condition were released from the shafts and grazing on the frouzy grass.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles

The frouzy cotton was visible at other places—peeping through various rents both in jacket and trousers.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

“Every morning,” says a newspaper correspondent, “in hail, rain or snow, the poet dons his frouzy cap and his frouzier slouch hat, and promenades for an hour or so, none daring to disturb him.”

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene