frouzy
Americanadjective
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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 William Dean Howells
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 Charles Dickens
Who would not prefer one Virgin and Child of Raphael, to all the pictures which Rubens, with his fat, frouzy Dutch Venuses, ever painted?
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
It don't look much like what you got on your head, but I work a lot in the garden, and if I don't have somethin' on my head my hair gets all frouzy.
From Drusilla with a Million by Elizabeth Cooper
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 Mayne Reid
“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 Eugene Parsons
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