frowst

/ fraʊst /

noun

1. informal,  a hot and stale atmosphere; fug

Word History and Origins

Origin of frowst¹

C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of _frowzy

Example Sentences

"Fairly average frowst in here," he observed.

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The smells, however, of onions or hot blankets or machine-oil or tom-cats or dirty bicycles proclaimed emphatically that a community shared these ascending mustard-colored walls, that human beings passed along the stale landings to frowst behind those finger-stained doors of salmon-pink.

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"My hat, what a frowst!" exclaimed Maurice, rushing to the window and letting in the mist and the noise of the High.

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You liked shutting the window on a cold night and collecting a crowd and raising such a frowst that the air was solid and the windows steamed.

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A few minutes later one Dickinson said: "Please can we have the window open: there's an awful frowst."

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