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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Prov. E.

frouzy

froward, peevish, offensive to the eye or smell; cf.

froust

a musty smell, frouse to rumple, frouze to curl, and E.

frounce

frowy

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See

“Petticoats in frouzy heaps.”

Swift.

Adj.

Fetid; musty; rank; dim; cloudy.