“Frowsy” or “Frowzy” (FROW-zee) – possibly related to the Old English for “smelly” – means dirty and untidy or musty.
Example (as used by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist): “The cold wet shelterless midnight streets of London; the foul and frowsy dens, where vice is closely packed and lacks the room to turn; the haunts of hunger and disease; the shabby rags that scarcely hold together; where are the attractions of these things?”
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