frowst

/ fraʊst /

noun

Origin of frowst¹

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

Its charm is so deliciously old in this land, so deliciously young compared with the lovely frowst of Oxford and Cambridge.

The places are heated but not aired, and the smell is horrid; but they seem to revel in "frowst."

If you want to keep warm while travelling (to frowst, as the open air school calls it) do not get in with well-bred Englishwomen.

I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.

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.

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