frowst
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of frowst
C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of frowzy
Example Sentences
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"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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After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual or sixpenny magazines.
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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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