Frowst

Word FROWST
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /fɹaʊst/

Definitions and meanings of "Frowst"

What do we mean by frowst?

Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.

To laze and waste time. This has older origins (see Billy Bunter), but should make a comeback. Urban Dictionary

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The word "frowst" in example sentences

Hill as a "frowst"; Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. ❋ Horace Annesley Vachell (1908)

Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Detaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst;" Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings. ❋ Horace Annesley Vachell (1908)

I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)

The places are heated but not aired, and the smell is horrid; but they seem to revel in "frowst." ❋ Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon (1890)

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; ❋ Unknown (2010)

I looked about her room: the mess of clothes and jewels hung up or thrown down when she would not choose; the phials and jars and mirrors, the pots of physic everywhere; the warm frowst of women in a closed-up place; and I remembered it long ago, curtains flung wide to the sun, clean polished wood smelling of beeswax and lemon thyme; a bow and a silk cap on the unused bed; a lyre propped against the window-column, and crumbs on the sill for birds. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)

"What a frowst I Fancy sitting in that poky little carriage with both windows shut. ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)

"Why dont you [come out and play] [soccer] instead of frowsting in the [armchair].?" ❋ Nigel Upton (2004)

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