Frowsy
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɹæʊzi/
Alternative forms
Full definition of frowsy
Adjective
frowsy
- Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 9He had seen it lying in the window of a frowsy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town (just what quarter he did not now remember) and had been stricken immediately by an overwhelming desire to possess it.