Definitions for frowzy

frowzy frowz·y

Spelling: [frou-zee]
IPA: /ˈfraʊ zi/

Frowzy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 24 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in frowzy (forwyz).

Definitions for frowzy

adjective

  1. dirty and untidy; slovenly.
  2. ill-smelling; musty.

Origin of frowzy

First recorded in 1675-85; origin uncertain

Examples for frowzy

This, indeed, forms no part of their character; on the contrary they are what Swift would call a frowzy people.

Their immediate surroundings were a scrawny, frowzy landscape.

By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapour-baths.

"Wehling," said the waiting father, sitting up, red-eyed and frowzy.

His eyes could discover nothing that was not mean, ugly, frowzy, and unimaginative.

It was still musty, close, and frowzy, with half-awakened passengers.

They passed a frowzy chambermaid, who stared at them with a yawn.

By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapor-baths.

There was a great din of voices coming from its frowzy interior, and he wondered.

But it was a mass of frowzy curls that seemed full of sunshine.

Word Value for frowzy
Scrable

24

Words with friends

23

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