frowst
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of frowst
C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of frowzy
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Its charm is so deliciously old in this land, so deliciously young compared with the lovely frowst of Oxford and Cambridge.
From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke
You can't frowst all day at this nonsense.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward
After feeding-time they would lie torpid in a heavenly frowst reading Wisden's Annual or sixpenny magazines.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire.
From Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study by Anonymous
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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