frowst
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of frowst
C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of frowzy
Example Sentences
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It was a big place with only a tiny stove to warm it, and the windows were shut so that the atmosphere was a cold frowst.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
You can't frowst all day at this nonsense.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
Down in the frowst I heard them snore.
From The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon
I feel as if I was The only living thing On all this blighted earth; And so I frowst and shrink, And crouching by my hearth I hear the thoughts I think.
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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